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Lillian C McGowin 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 $10k34 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAUPHIN WAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $23,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY | $8,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST INNER CITY MISSION | $4,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $3,000 |
| FEEDING THE GULF COAST | $3,000 |
| SEVEN HILLS FIRE DISTRICT | $2,500 |
| MOBILE BAYKEEPER | $2,500 |
| RICHARDS DAR HOUSE MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA | $2,000 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| PRODISEE PANTRY | $2,000 |
| GOVERNMENT STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| EARTH DAY MOBILE BAY | $1,500 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $1,500 |
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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 99% 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
- VHVictory Health Partners Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +18%
- SHSEVEN HILLS FIRE DISTRICT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +24%
- MBMobile Baykeeper Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHABone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -2%
- SSSYBIL SMITH FAMILY VILLAGEone grant, 2024 · $1k
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $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.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
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.
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To survey, evaluate, and provide a method for common action by the regional ems agencies in furthering the development and improvement of emergency medical care to the citizens of alabama including coordination of activities and projects…
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
Ems support/ public safety
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Coastal Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Fairhope Film Festival 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 40 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.
28 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. 28 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 SEVEN HILLS FIRE DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Richards DAR House Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORE MOBILE 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 · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dog Hill Foundation · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · The Sybil and White Smith 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 Lillian C McGowin 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.
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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