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James & Patricia Hart Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIRCLE HILL BAPTIST CH | $7,000 |
| HEARTACHE & HOPE | $5,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW | $5,000 |
| CHIPOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUND INC | $1,000 |
| CIVIL AIR PATROL | $1,000 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CHIPOLA FAMILY MINISTRIES | $800 |
| SHEILA MADER-CHILDRENS FUND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| DR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION | $500 |
| JACKSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SCHOOL STORMMELODY BEST | $200 |
| MARIANNA CHAPEL FUNERAL HOME | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of your 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.
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 +76% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CCCHIPOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +102%
- TATHE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +50%
- ACALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +272%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WMWESLEY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHone grant, 2018 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Promote and preserve general aviation and aviation history.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The primary exempt purposes of the museum of flight are to preserve aviation and space history, and to provide education to the public about subjects related to flight.
The foundation supports the military aviation museum.
See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The mission of the sac museum is to celebrate our heritage, preserve our artifacts, and inspire learning.
Air university foundation seeks to raise funds to provide financial assistance to air university schools and agencies for the advancement of the study of air and space power.
The foundation provides free seminars to potential donors and current donors to inform them about the work of mission aviation fellowship and to teach them about stewardship principles.
The foundation operates a continuing care retirement community. the foundation provides three levels of housing facilities and services specifically designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of elderly retired career…
Preserve and promote military history.
Inspire a community for innovation and discovery, preserve aerospace history, and honor those who serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Air Force Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jackson Hospital Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 36 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
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 CHIPOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIL AIR PATROL INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWOOD MUSEUM AND GARDENS 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James & Patricia Hart Foundation 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, a single department, or state — 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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