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Holle Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CAMP MCDOWELL$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG OAK RANCH: $150k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $150k → 13%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $25k → 16%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%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $15k → 16%RALEIGH'S PLACE: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
57/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $60,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetALABAMA SCHOLASTIC COMPETITION ASSO: $60,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 3.9% 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 budgetWALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetTHE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $23,868 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAIN STREET ALABAMA: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Holle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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