· Private foundation
Julien E Marx Foundation Trust
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| FULL LIFE AHEAD FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VARIOUS LOCAL AGENCIES | $4,300 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $3,000 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +31% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- VHVictory Health Partners Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue +19%
- TLTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION4× · 2018–2022 · $8k · revenue +51%
- IFINFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FTFeeding the Gulf Coastone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +11%
- CACROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $4k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
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.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Provides training for adults with developmental disabilities in an adult training setting and supervised alternative living arrangements for washington county, alabama
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Service Dogs Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Light for Living Ministries Inc. 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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 54 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 Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FULL LIFE AHEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds ARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Light for Living Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry 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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Ernest G Debakey Charitable 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 Julien E Marx Foundation Trust 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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