· Private foundation
Joe Lee Griffin 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS | $45,000 |
| VESTAVIA HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| UNITED STATES ISRAEL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| UAB O'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE GLADNEY FUND | $7,500 |
| EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS | $5,000 |
| NAMI | $5,000 |
| ONWARD | $5,000 |
| MIRACLE ACADEMY PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROBERT E REED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FORGOTTEN CHILDRENS MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE LOVELADY CENTER | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Samford University8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +61%- FCFORGOTTEN CHILDREN MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +15%
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- VHVESTAVIA HILLS CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +67%
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCESone grant, 2017 · $8k
- AGAlabama Game Changersone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
Red mountain grace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated as a place of refuge for out-of-town patients and caregivers that are receiving extended medical treatment. our foundation is in christ, our heart is for birmingham.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
Provide support to families in need.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother Bryan Mission and the most unlike its peers is Inland Empire Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 90 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 THE GLADNEY FUND ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDREN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds UNLESS U INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds VESTAVIA HILLS CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WINNATASKA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENYARELIEFORG ↗
- Who funds OAK MOUNTAIN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Bundles of Hope 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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Dunn-French Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · The Long Lewis Foundation · The Hackney 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 Joe Lee Griffin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.