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Lorol Roden Bowron Rediker Rucker Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Altamont School | $10,000 |
| Cathedral Church of the Advent | $8,500 |
| Birmingham Botanical Gardens | $3,500 |
| Indian Springs Schools | $2,500 |
| Birmingham Historical Society | $2,000 |
| Birmingham Museum of Art | $1,500 |
| Friends of Jemison Park | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Junior League of Birmingham | $1,000 |
| Mountain Brook City Schools | $1,000 |
| Black Warrior Riverkeeper | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Jackson Hole Land and Trust | $500 |
| Rotary Club of Birmingham | $500 |
| Jefferson County Historical Association | $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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TATHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +34%
- TBTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +44%
- ISINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IPIndependent Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BZBirmingham Zoo Incone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +21%
- TCThe Community Foundationone grant, 2022 · $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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
Our mission to restore and protect the Cahaba River watershed and its rich diversity of life. The diverse lives depending on the river include the Cahaba's exceptional freshwater biodiversity and also the diverse residents of Birmingham,…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds BLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Dunn-French Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Hackney Foundation · Stephens Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Milestone Fund · Nall-Whatley 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 Lorol Roden Bowron Rediker Rucker 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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