· Private foundation
J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of J L BEDSOLE FOUNDATION REGIONS BANK CO-TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k116 grants · $618k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $701k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $711k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $500,000 |
| BAYSIDE ACADEMY | $500,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| MOBILE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COVENANT ACADEMY OF MOBILE | $104,000 |
| COASTAL ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP | $100,000 |
| INNOVATION PORTAL | $100,000 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $82,305 |
| EXPLOREUM SCIENCE CENTER | $75,000 |
| BAYSHORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MOST PURE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC | $31,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 97% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
215 repeat relationships — 112 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $952k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE3× · 2020–2023 · $568k · revenue +13%
- SPST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL2× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +18%
- MAMobile Area Education Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- MAMOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $560k
- UCUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -1%
- AOACADEMY OF CRAFT TRAININGone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
To survey, evaluate, and provide a method for common action by the regional ems agencies in furthering the development and improvement of emergency medical care to the citizens of alabama including coordination of activities and projects…
The purpose of the organization is to make lives better through music by producing and promoting symphonic music and delivering music education programs throughout Alabama and the Gulf Coast region.
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Coastal Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Clotilda Descendants Association. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
96 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. 96 of the 414 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COASTAL ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF CRAFT TRAINING ↗
- Who funds BARTON ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds Covenant Academy of Mobile ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION PORTAL INC ↗
- Who funds BAYSHORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mapp Family Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · Mw Smith Jr Foundation
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 J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee 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.
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.
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