· Private foundation
Linn-Henley Charitable Trust Uw
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC | $105,000 |
| BARBER VINTAGE MOTORSPORT MUSEUM | $70,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $50,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| OAK HILL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| St Marys on the Highlands Church | $18,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- BVBARBER VINTAGE MOTORSPORTS MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $655k · revenue +20%
- BZBirmingham Zoo Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $475k · revenue +12%
- MPMITCHELL'S PLACE INC3× · 2018–2024 · $64k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- T2TWG 2021 BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -99%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabamagraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +25%
- TSTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +30%
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.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Purpose is to use income produced by the trust to support the operations of bma at the direction of the directors.
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.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
The organization is a dynamic advocate, unifying voice and constant catalyst for economic development and business prosperity for the Greater Birmingham Region.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Rev birmingham (rev) creates vibrant commercial districts.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimers of Central Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 BARBER VINTAGE MOTORSPORTS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds TWG 2021 BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Central Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Kitchens of Birmingham ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BASICS 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 · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Thomas E Jernigan 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 Linn-Henley Charitable Trust Uw 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.