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Junior League of Birmingham Inc

The junior league of birmingham is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

$866k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$698kHealth$687kFood & Nutrition$621kEducation$482kEnvironment$399kReligion$300kInternational$250kHousing & Shelter$220kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $667,646 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $866,419 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $198,773 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $206k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $455k
$16,445
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEFFERSON COUNTY GREENWAYS FOUNDATION$120,000
FORGE SURVIVORSHOP CENTER$109,851
FIRST LIGHT$100,000
MOTHERS MILK BANK OF ALABAMA$65,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF ALABAMA$60,000
LOVELADY CENTER$40,000
VINEYARD FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA$25,000
THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION$16,445
YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$16,000
HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA$15,710
GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC$15,000
CORNERSTONE SCHOOL$14,440
JONES VALLEY TEACHING FARM$12,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$11,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $940k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BACKPACK BUDDIES: $20k → 7%BACKPACK BUDDIES: $17k → 7%VINEYARD FAMILY SVCS BACKPACK BUDDIES: $17k → 7%BACKPACK BUDDIES: $17k → 7%Vineyard Family Services: $26k → 7%Vineyard Family Services: $26k → 7%VINEYARD FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 7%Vineyard Family Services: $19k → 7%VINEYARD FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $30k → 7%SPECIAL EQUESTRICANS INC: $9k → 7%The Foundry Ministries: $8k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $6k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $6k → 16%The Foundry Ministries: $6k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 16%Grace Klein Community Inc: $15k → 16%Grace Klein Community Inc: $13k → 16%HOOVER PARKS & RECREATION: $5k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 16%Children's Aid Society of Alabama: $150k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 16%MOTHERS MILK BANK OF ALABAMA: $65k → 16%Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama: $19k → 16%Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama: $18k → 16%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK - MOTHERS MILK: $15k → 16%Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK - MOTHERS MILK: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK - MOTHERS MILK: $13k → 16%MOTHERS MILK BANK OF ALABAMA: $13k → 16%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK - MOTHERS MILK BANK: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S POLICY COOPERATIVE: $11k → 16%CHILDREN'S POLICY COUNCIL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY -FAMILY REUNIFICATION: $6k → 16%GRACE HOUSE: $25k → 16%YMCA of Greater Birmingham: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $100k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $25k → 16%YWCA of Central Alabama: $19k → 16%YWCA: $18k → 16%YWCACHILDREN IN CRISIS: $18k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $16k → 16%YWCACHILDREN IN CRISIS: $15k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $9k → 16%PATHWAYSINVEST IN YOU: $7k → 16%PATHWAYS: $7k → 16%YWCA of Central Alabama: $6k → 16%YWCA of Central Alabama: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 31 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
40

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

87%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +153%
  • VF
    Vineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +63%
  • MM
    Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama
    9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • SS
    SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +20%
  • FL
    FRESHWATER LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
2
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
3
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
4
Nami Alabama Inc

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

Health
5
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
6
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
7
Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment
8
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
9
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
10
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
11
Developing Alabama Youth Foundation Inc

Operate a comprehensive youth treatment center for at risk adolescents (ages 13-18) in Shelby County, Alabama

Health
12
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama and the most unlike its peers is City of Hoover Park and Recreation Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndustry Trade AssociationsAlabama Community Developme…Counseling and Addiction Re…Birmingham Community Develo…Community Development & Hou…Member Recreation ClubsChristian Ministry SupportArts & Cultural Organizatio…Professional Membership Ass…Senior Affordable Housing
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
15%
628/4,087

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
45/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc — $191,003 · Human ServicesVineyard Family Services o…Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama — $183,238 · Human ServicesMothers Milk Bank of Alaba…CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA — $175,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF …FIRST LIGHT INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INCYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM — $105,929 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASS…GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC — $42,825 · Human ServicesTRIUMPH SERVICES INC — $35,000 · Human Services+8 more — $116,699 · Human Services+8 moreSIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH INC — $300,000 · OtherSIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH INCJEFFERSON COUNTY GREENWAYS FOUNDATION — $120,000 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY GREENWAYS FOUNDATIONFORGE SURVIVORSHOP CENTER — $109,851 · OtherFORGE SURVIVORSHOP CENTERA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $100,000 · OtherA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBBirmingham Zoo Inc — $101,000 · OtherBirmingham Zoo IncTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $56,392 · OtherEAST LAKE INITIATIVE — $73,500 · Other+37 more — $805,672 · Other+37 moreChrist Health Center Inc — $100,000 · HealthChrist He…AIDS ALABAMA INC — $50,000 · HealthAIDS ALAB…SMILE-A-MILE — $50,000 · HealthSMILE-A-M…Oasis Counseling for Women and Children — $35,000 · HealthOasis Cou…MAGIC MOMENTS — $31,000 · HealthMAGIC MOM…ALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · HealthALABAMA L…The Children's Hospital of Alabama — $26,116 · HealthThe Child…MITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $23,000 · HealthMITCHELL'…THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $20,000 · HealthTHE BELL …+1 more — $5,000 · HealthFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $250,000 · EnvironmentFRESHWATE…THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $111,874 · EnvironmentTHE BIRMI…COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $320,729 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY…MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $34,038 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC — $250,000 · InternationalBETTER BASICS INC — $160,000 · Crime & LegalONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$974,694Other$1,666,415Health$370,116Environment$361,874Food & Nutrition$354,767International$250,000Crime & Legal$235,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $320,729 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetVineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc — $191,003 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetMothers Milk Bank of Alabama — $183,238 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA — $175,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC — $160,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $111,874 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM — $105,929 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc — $101,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetChrist Health Center Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetEAST LAKE INITIATIVE — $73,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $56,392 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $49,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $44,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC — $42,825 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC — $41,860 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTRIUMPH SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $34,038 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS — $31,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC — $30,445 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $28,210 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $27,330 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC — $27,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $26,116 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $25,018 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northeast Alabama — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL AMBUCS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetDESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO — $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $23,006 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE ADMISSIONS MADE POSSIBLE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Policy Cooperative of Jefferson County — $16,713 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $16,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Hill Crest Foundation…Robert R Meyer Founda…Alabama Power Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Mike and Gillian Good…Altecstyslinger Found…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL115.5× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen 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 Junior League of Birmingham Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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