How much does J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee give?

J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee reported 167 grants totaling $3,280,727 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 136 and 165 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Community Improvement (15%), Environment (7%).

Who are J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of South Alabama ($1.0M), Coastal Alabama Partnership ($830k), University of Mobile ($568k).

Does J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation.

Where is J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee based?

J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee is based in AL.

J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee

J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

167

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$6.8MCommunity Improvement$2.1MEnvironment$1.0MHealth$819kScience & Tech$595kHuman Services$574kArts & Culture$471kEmployment$460kOther$0

02FY2024 · 167 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k116 grants · $618k
$10k–50k40 grants · $701k
$50k–250k8 grants · $711k
$250k+3 grants · $1.3M

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$55M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BAYSIDE ACADEMY	$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	$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
MOST PURE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL	$50,000
BAYSHORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL	$50,000
VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS	$40,000
MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART	$40,000
COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC	$31,500
Individual grant recipient	$30,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 97%.

J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trusteelessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 215 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

215

146

Total granted

$11M

$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+4%

Still filing today

22%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $952k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE
3× · 2020–2023 · $568k · revenue +13%
SP
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
2× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +18%
MA
Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc
2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +237%

Funded once

MA
MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUND
one grant, 2021 · $560k
AO
ACADEMY OF CRAFT TRAINING
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -18%
UC
UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -1%

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.

Mobile Baykeeper Inc

Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.

Environment

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

Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

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

Community Improvement

Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment

Mothers Milk Bank of 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.

Human Services

The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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Walker County Community Agency Inc

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

—

Alabama Council of Emergency Medical Services Inc

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…

—

Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame

Arts & Culture

Mobile Symphony Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

—

Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Coastal Alabama; 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.

05the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 414 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

95/96

Grantees still filing

58/96

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,627,063Education$1,908,135Public Safety & Disaster$1,010,000Health$644,500Community Improvement$436,750Human Services$354,000Arts & Culture$262,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank TrusteeAL97× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

31report 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.

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