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Holle Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$8.1MHuman Services$1.7MEnvironment$603kHousing & Shelter$579kFood & Nutrition$566kHealth$510kArts & Culture$375kYouth Development$224kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $499k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $828k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$1,100,000
ALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTION$150,300
UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA$142,791
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-TUSCALOOSA$125,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY$75,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$75,000
TRANSFORMATION MONTGOMERY$60,000
FLOURISH ALABAMA$50,250
LAKESHORE FOUNDATION$50,000
WILL BRIGHT FOUNDATION$40,000
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES$34,877
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST ALABAMA$31,051
WALKER COLLEGE FOUNDATION$31,000
BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG OAK RANCH: $150k → 13%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $25k → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $150k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $150k → 13%YMCA OF CHILTON COUNTY: $7k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $20k → 16%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE: $75k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $20k → 16%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE-CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $45k → 16%RALEIGH'S PLACE: $15k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $15k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $10k → 16%MANNA MINISTRIES: $50k → 7%MANNA MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%MANNA MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF WEST ALA: $4k → 17%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $25k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $100k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 16%UNLESS U: $60k → 16%MERCY DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES: $14k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $75k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $35k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $30k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $57k → 16%FIRST LIGHT WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $20k → 16%FIRST LIGHT WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $1k → 16%MISSION OF HOPE: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 55 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
57

Total granted

$12M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BO
    BIG OAK RANCH INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $450k · revenue +67%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +135%
  • AC
    ALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • BB
    BSA BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • BI
    Bridgeways Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • MA
    MIDDLE ALABAMA AGENCY ON AGING
    one grant, 2023 · $95k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
Walker County Community Agency Inc

The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al

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3
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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4
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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5
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
6
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
7
Feeding Alabama

To end hunger by assisting food bank networks in obtaining more food and funds, fostering public awareness of the food banks' mission, and creating partnerships to alleviate hunger in alabama.

Food & Nutrition
8
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
9
Community Action Agency of South Alabama Inc

Administration of federal, state and local awards and grants for the poverty sector of a 7 county area in alabama, providing headstart education, food, shelter, maintenance, and weatherization programs.

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10
Wings Across Alabama

To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.

Education
11
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
12
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Scholastic Competition Asso. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Affordable HousingDisability Services Organiz…Healthcare System SupportArts and Cultural Instituti…University and Education Fo…Emergency Services and Shel…Community Development Organ…Diverse Community Organizat…Birmingham Community Organi…Professional Associations a…Christian Ministry Organiza…K-12 Schools and Scholarshi…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/90
the rest of the field
15%
922/6,253

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 142 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
58/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $7,132,965 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA+102 more — $3,763,274 · Other+102 moreBIG OAK RANCH INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RA…GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $164,877 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUS…THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDR…BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILD ADVOCACY CEN — $120,000 · Human ServicesBUTTERFLY …Christian Service Mission Inc — $90,000 · Human ServicesChristian …MANNA MINISTRIES — $85,000 · Human ServicesMANNA MINI…UNLESS U INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ON THE RISE — $57,500 · Human Services+9 more — $132,938 · Human Services+9 moreSamford University — $250,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $75,000 · EducationBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $40,000 · Education+3 more — $18,000 · EducationALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC — $260,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $70,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $180,000 · EnvironmentFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $70,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $114,831 · HealthLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthARTS' N AUTISM INC — $30,000 · HealthBridgeways Inc — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROOM FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA — $7,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,896,239Human Services$1,310,315Education$503,000Food & Nutrition$340,000Environment$255,000Health$194,831Youth Development$166,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $450,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA — $325,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC — $260,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSamford University — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $205,768 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $180,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $164,877 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATION MONTGOMERY INC — $121,250 over 2y, 16% of budgetBUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILD ADVOCACY CEN — $120,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $114,831 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBridgeways Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc — $90,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMANNA MINISTRIES — $85,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $75,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE MARIANNA GREENE HENRY FOUNDATION — $73,272 over 4y, 56% of budgetThe Prescott House — $72,350 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC — $71,972 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetALABAMA SCHOLASTIC COMPETITION ASSO — $60,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $60,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetUNLESS U INC — $60,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ON THE RISE — $57,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetWALKER COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $57,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION — $52,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Care Development Network — $51,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFLOURISH ALABAMA — $50,250 over 1y, 12% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROOM FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWill Bright Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIRMINGHAM BLACK RADIO MUSEUM — $35,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $33,551 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetWEST ALABAMA AIDS OUTREACH INC FIVE HORIZONS HEALTH SERVICES — $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS' N AUTISM INC — $30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWALKER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $27,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY — $23,868 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAIN STREET ALABAMA — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…Mike and Gillian Good…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Altecstyslinger Found…Cawaco Resource Conse…Walker Area Community…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…United Way of Central…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL102.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · United Way of Central Alabama Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Holle Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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