· Private foundation
Lucille S Beeson Char Tr Bond Mgmt
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $231k
- $250k+16 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,801,209 |
| CANTERBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,206,164 |
| GATEWAY FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICES | $1,206,164 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $1,206,164 |
| ABILITY INC | $751,748 |
| ALABAMA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCHES INC | $637,440 |
| HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $637,440 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS RANCHES OF ALABAMA | $568,724 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $568,724 |
| BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC | $489,294 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA INC | $489,294 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $489,294 |
| THE BIRMINGHAM ZOO INC | $489,294 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRM | $489,294 |
| UNITED ABILITY INC | $454,415 |
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 (FY19–25, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- DJDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION7× · 2019–2025 · $7.9M · revenue +23%
- UAUNITED ABILITY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +34%
- ASALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +26% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $595k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ALABAMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $427k
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 serve people, build community, pursue justice.
"as a witness to the love of god, revealed through jesus christ, the baptist health system is committed to ministries that enhance the health, dignity, and wholeness of those we serve, through integrity, compassion, advocacy,…
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Mississippi baptist health systems, inc.'s foundation and tradition is its christian healing ministry. the mission is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology…
The charitable gift foundation is a public charity operating in affiliation with the community foundation of greater birmingham. the primary purpose of the foundation is to assist other charities with donation of real property and complex…
The mission of mississippi baptist medical center, inc. is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology in a personal and compassionate environment.
Baptist memorial hospital-north mississippi, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
The mission of Baptist Health Foundation Richmond is to serve as an instrument to assist, advance and strengthen Baptist Health Richmond hospital in its mission and ministry of healing, in its service as a health center for the community,…
To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.
Red mountain grace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated as a place of refuge for out-of-town patients and caregivers that are receiving extended medical treatment. our foundation is in christ, our heart is for birmingham.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ↗
- Who funds ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION 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 · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Nall-Whatley Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Lucille S Beeson Char Tr Bond Mgmt 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.