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Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc

To assist worthy youth in attaining vocational and scholastic excellence, and to aid handicapped persons in regaining happy, useful lives through the expending of funds directly for such purposes or by the furnishing of funds to organizations organized for charitable, scientific research, or educational purposes, or the prevention of…

$351k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of KIWANIS CLUB OF MONTGOMERY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $308,944 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $350,629 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,685 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $278k
$14,132
Median grant
2
States reached
$572k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Churchhill Academy Inc$25,594
Faulkner University$22,000
Guide Right Foundation of Montgomery$20,781
Flatline Community Coalition$20,000
Boys and Girls Club of the River Region$20,000
Embrace Alabama Kids$20,000
Valiant Cross Academy$19,887
Alabama River Foundation$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Montgomery Education Foundation$15,000
Kiwanis International$14,132
Friendship Mission$10,550
AMBUCS$10,000
Dream Court Inc$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Alabama Sheriff's Youth Ranches: $40k → 18%Children's Aid Society: $18k → 16%Life on Wheels: $21k → 18%Boys & Girls Ranches of Alabama: $20k → 18%KidOne Transport: $5k → 16%KidOne Transport: $5k → 16%Alabama Sheriffs Youth Ranches: $15k → 18%Embrace Alabama Kids: $20k → 18%One Place Family Justice Center: $11k → 18%New Beginnings Educational Center: $10k → 18%New beginnings educational center: $10k → 18%New Beginnings Educational Center: $10k → 18%New Beginnings Educational Center: $10k → 18%The Children First Alliance of Alabama: $8k → 18%Flatline Community Coalition: $20k → 18%Brantwood Children's Home: $5k → 18%The Samaritan Counseling Center: $21k → 18%The Samaritan Counseling Center: $20k → 18%Embrace Alabama Kids: $15k → 18%The Samaritan Counseling Center: $10k → 18%Fisher Farms: $5k → 18%Friendship Mission: $25k → 18%Friendship Mission: $18k → 18%Mercy House: $15k → 18%Friendship Mission: $11k → 18%CASA of the River Region: $6k → 18%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 44 repeat orgs$783k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
50

Total granted

$1.6M
$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+17%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • VC
    VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +13%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +72%
  • ME
    MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $72k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • YC
    YMCA - Camp Chandler
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • YO
    YMCA - of Great Montgomery - Grandview
    one grant, 2018 · $33k

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
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
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
3
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
4
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

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.

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5
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
6
Leadership Montgomery Inc

To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community

Public Benefit
7
Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.

Human Services
8
Wings Across Alabama

To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.

Education
9
Alabama Christian Academy

To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.

—
10
Legal Services Alabama Inc

Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.

Crime & Legal
11
Family Promise of Baldwin County

To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.

Human Services
12
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Center of Montgomery Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Ambucs 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%14%<5yr17%4%5–10yr17%29%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr17%2%5–10yr17%35%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/62
the rest of the field
19%
269/1,434

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

58 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. 58 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKiwanis International — $82,351 · OtherKiwanis InternationalFamily Sunshine Center — $80,000 · OtherFamily Sunshine CenterAGAPE CORPORATION INC — $75,000 · OtherAGAPE CORPORATION INCYMCA - Camp Chandler — $55,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER CENTRAL ALABAMA — $57,500 · Other+56 more — $788,038 · Other+56 moreVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $84,145 · EducationVALIANT CROSS ACADE…CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY INC — $84,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S CENTER O…MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $72,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY EDUCATIO…FAULKNER UNIVERSITY — $47,474 · EducationFAULKNER UNIVERSITYMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $36,723 · EducationMONTGOMERY CHRISTIA…THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION — $29,500 · EducationTHE LIBERTY LEARNIN…CHURCHILL ACADEMY INC — $25,594 · EducationCHURCHILL ACADEMY I…LEAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $20,700 · EducationALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA SHERIFFS' …FRIENDSHIP MISSION INC — $53,800 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP MISSION…THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN — $51,121 · Human ServicesTHE SAMARITAN COUN…LIFE ON WHEELS — $47,296 · Human ServicesLIFE ON WHEELSNEW BEGINNINGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $40,000 · Human ServicesNEW BEGINNINGS EDU…UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $35,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST C…FLATLINE COMMUNITY COALITION — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA — $17,512 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $50,500 · Human Services+6 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMON GROUND MONTGOMERY — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge Builders Alabama — $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHATS MY CHILD — $13,212 · Youth DevelopmentSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC — $53,000 · AnimalsALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $28,685 · AnimalsMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA DANCE THEATRE — $27,500 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,250 · Arts & CultureCLEFWORKS INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $29,800 · HealthMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $18,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $17,510 · HealthMAGIC MOMENTS — $5,000 · Health
Other$1,237,889Education$420,136Human Services$405,229Youth Development$133,712Animals$81,685Arts & Culture$72,750Health$70,310

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $84,145 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY INC — $84,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAGAPE CORPORATION INC — $75,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetMONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $72,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER CENTRAL ALABAMA — $57,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MISSION INC — $53,800 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC — $53,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN — $51,121 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFAULKNER UNIVERSITY — $47,474 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ON WHEELS — $47,296 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetFIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S MEDICAL CENTER INC — $40,351 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMON GROUND MONTGOMERY — $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMONTGOMERY STEP FOUNDATION INC — $39,500 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $36,723 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAID TO INMATE MOTHERS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChild Protect Inc — $32,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $29,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION — $29,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $28,685 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA DANCE THEATRE — $27,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHURCHILL ACADEMY INC — $25,594 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $23,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBridge Builders Alabama — $20,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetFLATLINE COMMUNITY COALITION — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA — $17,512 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $17,510 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNELLIE BURGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY BOTANICAL GARDEN AT OAK PARK — $15,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA — $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHATS MY CHILD — $13,212 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF THE RIVER REGION — $12,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetRIVER REGION UNITED WAY — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetONE PLACE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $11,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY CITY-COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDREAM COURT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL AMBUCS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $8,778 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S FIRST ALLIANCE OF ALABAMA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 7.4% 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…Central Alabama Commu…Alabama Power Foundat…Arthur M Britton Foun…The J K Lowder Family…Gordy-Mead-Britton Fo…Alfa FoundationWorking Woman's Home …John and Joyce Caddel…Junior League of Mont…The S Adam Schloss Fo…The Hobbs Foundation
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL68.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Working Woman's Home Association Inc · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Junior League of Montgomery Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Hobbs 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 Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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