Alabama · Private foundation
Homer Vinson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Homer Vinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $57k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $54k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $49k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $74k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $52k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $30k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $21k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entrusted Hope Ministries | $27,600 | 5 | 9% |
| Bibles For The World | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Global Outreach International Inc | $17,300 | 8 | 0% |
| The Place of Grace Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $14,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Global 504 | $14,100 | 8 | 1% |
| Slavic Gospel Association | $11,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $9,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Eight Days of Hope Inc | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $7,200 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Homer Vinson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Horizons · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Homer Vinson Foundation
- How much does Homer Vinson Foundation give?
- Homer Vinson Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $56,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Homer Vinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (62%), International (13%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Homer Vinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Entrusted Hope Ministries ($28k), Bibles For The World ($18k), Global Outreach International Inc ($17k).
- Does Homer Vinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Homer Vinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Homer Vinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Horizons, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is Homer Vinson Foundation based?
- Homer Vinson Foundation is based in AL.
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