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Inspire & Achieve Corporation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$300
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300
Largest grant, FY2024
$300
Organizations funded a year
3 to 37
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$20
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Inspire & Achieve Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$300100%
FY20236$8k100%
FY20223$16k67%
FY20213$3k67%
FY20206$6k33%
FY201932$79k50%
FY201837$68k70%
FY201734$124kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$119kEducation$107kScience & Tech$25kReligion$11kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$6kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ascte Foundation Fka Alabama School of Cyber and Engineering Foundation Inc$16,00030%
Spelman College$15,50030%
Alabama A&M University Foundation$13,2001n/a
Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation$10,00012%
Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama$5,20020%
United Way of Madison County Inc$5,0001n/a
Menil Foundation Inc$4,76410%
Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation$4,7502n/a
Southside Church of Christ$3,7003n/a
University of South Alabama$3,0003n/a
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Inspire & Achieve Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ascte Foundation Fka Alabama School of Cyber and Engineering Foundation Inc$16,00030%
Spelman College$15,50030%
Alabama A&M University Foundation$13,2001n/a
Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation$10,00012%
Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama$5,20020%
United Way of Madison County Inc$5,0001n/a
Menil Foundation Inc$4,76410%
Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation$4,7502n/a
Southside Church of Christ$3,7003n/a
University of South Alabama$3,0003n/a
Union Hill Primitive Baptist Church Inc$2,5001n/a
Auburn University Foundation$1,50010%
Huntsville- Madison-Tenn Valley Alumni Chapter of Stillman College$1,5001n/a
Church of Christ$1,5001n/a
Harris Home for Children Inc$1,0001n/a
Hudsonalpha Foundation$1,00010%
Leadership Alabama Inc$1,00010%
The Huntsville Margarita Society$1,00012%
Heals Inc$1,00010%
Downtown Rescue Mission Inc$1,00010%
Birmingham-Southern College$75010%
The WEDC Foundation Inc$60010%
Omega Men of North Alabama Inc$50011%
The Links Inc$50010%
Encounter Ministries$50010%
Equal Justice Initiative$50010%
Developmental Enhancement Life Training Alliance Inc$48011%
Major Virtual Innovations$3001n/a
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc$2802n/a
Draper Memorial Church of God in Christ Inc$2001n/a
Diverse Educational Life Training Activities Inc$2001n/a
Lakeside United Methodist Church Inc$2001n/a
Youth Friendship Foundation Inc$1001n/a
National Kappa Kappa Iota Inc$1001n/a
Lakewood Church$501n/a

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Inspire & Achieve Corporation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAscte Foundation Fka Alabama School of Cyber and Engineering Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSpelman College: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuntsville-Madison County Library Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of North Alabama: $5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $4,764 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudsonalpha Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Alabama Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Huntsville Margarita Society: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHeals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Rescue Mission Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham-Southern College: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe WEDC Foundation Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOmega Men of North Alabama Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Links Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEncounter Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDevelopmental Enhancement Life Training Alliance Inc: $480 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Stender Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Inspire & Achieve Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Inspire & Achieve Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Inspire & Achieve Corporation

How much does Inspire & Achieve Corporation give?
Inspire & Achieve Corporation reported 1 grants totaling $300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Inspire & Achieve Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (39%), Education (35%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Inspire & Achieve Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ascte Foundation Fka Alabama School of Cyber and Engineering Foundation Inc ($16k), Spelman College ($16k), Alabama A&M University Foundation ($13k).
Does Inspire & Achieve Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Inspire & Achieve Corporation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Inspire & Achieve Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
Where is Inspire & Achieve Corporation based?
Inspire & Achieve Corporation is based in AL.

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 89 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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