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Plinth

· Public charity

Main Street Alabama

To educate citizens about ways to revitalize and preserve their small town downtowns and urban neighborhood commercial centers.

$490k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$22,500
MAIN STREET WETUMPKA$22,500
HEFLIN MAIN STREET$22,500
HISTORIC 4TH AVE BUS DISTRICT URBAN$22,500
MAIN STREET MARION$22,500
DOWNTOWN DECATUR REDEVELOPMENT AUTH$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,500
SOUTH HUNTSVILLE MAIN BUS ASSOC$22,500
HISTORIC MAIN STREET OXFORD$22,500
DOWNTOWN FLORENCE ALLIANCE$22,500
FOLEY MAIN STREET CCMM FDN$22,500
MONTEVALLO MAIN STREET$22,500
COLUMBIANA MAIIN STREET$22,500
CENTREVILLE MAIN STREET$22,500
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MAIN STREET WETUMPKA: $23k → 12%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 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
Batesville Main Street Inc

Promote the activity in Downtown Batesville

Community Improvement
2
Main Street Princess Anne
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3
Main Street-Marion Indiana Inc

Revitalize and promote downtown marion

Community Improvement
4
Main Street of Monticello Inc

Revitalize and enhance downtown area

Arts & Culture
5
Central City Mainstreet

Promote historic preservation in the downtown area

Philanthropy
6
Main Street Texarkana Business Organization for a New Downtown

Preserve downtown area as an economical and commercial center by bringing culture and business enterprises to the area.

Community Improvement
7
Walnut Main Street Revitalization

Revitalizing downtown area of our community

Community Improvement
8
Main Street Lockport Inc

Downtown Revitalization

Community Improvement
9
Main Street DeFuniak Springs Inc

To preserve, protect, maintain, and improve the historic downtown district of DeFuniak Springs FL, and to increase community events and economic vitality of the downtown business district

Community Improvement
10
Main Street Mechanicsburg

To preserve and revitalize Mechanicsburg heritage and encourage and promote business and economic development

Community Improvement
11
The Dalles Main Street Program

Leading the economic vitality of downtown the dalles

Community Improvement
12
Main Street Historic Chestertown Inc

Foster an inviting, diverse and prosperous downtown.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Main Street Alexander City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Opelika Main Street Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 27 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBIANA MAIN STREET — $22,500 · OtherCOLUMBIANA MAIN STREETHISTORIC 4TH AVE BUS DISTRICT URBAN — $22,500 · OtherHISTORIC 4TH AVE BUS DISTRICT URBANFOLEY MAIN STREET CCMM FDN — $22,500 · OtherFOLEY MAIN STREET CCMM FDNHEFLIN MAIN STREET — $22,500 · OtherHEFLIN MAIN STREETIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHISTORIC MAIN STREET OXFORD — $22,500 · OtherHISTORIC MAIN STREET OXFORDIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOWNTOWN DECATUR REDEVELOPMENT AUTH — $22,500 · OtherDOWNTOWN DECATUR REDEVELOPMENT AUTHIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTH HUNTSVILLE MAIN BUS ASSOC — $22,500 · OtherSOUTH HUNTSVILLE MAIN BUS ASSOCIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN FLORENCE ALLIANCE — $22,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN FLORENCE ALLIANCEMONTEVALLO MAIN STREET — $22,500 · Community ImprovementMONTEVALLO MAIN STREETMain Street Marion Inc — $22,500 · Community ImprovementMain Street Marion IncCentreville Main Street Inc — $22,500 · Community ImprovementCentreville Main Street IncDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONMONROEVILLE MAIN STREET — $12,500 · Community ImprovementMONROEVILLE MAIN STREETDOWNTOWN GADSDEN INC — $12,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN GADSDEN INCLAFAYETTE MAIN STREET — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLAFAYETTE MAIN STREETMAIN STREET ATMORE — $10,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET ATMOREOPELIKA MAIN STREET INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementOPELIKA MAIN STREET INCCALERA MAIN STREET INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCALERA MAIN STREET INCWETUMPKA DOWNTOWN — $22,500 · Human ServicesFORT PAYNE-MAIN STREET INC — $12,500 · Membership BenefitMAIN STREET DEMOPOLIS — $10,000 · Membership BenefitMAIN STREET ALEXANDER CITY INC — $12,500 · Education
Other$257,500Community Improvement$175,000Human Services$22,500Membership Benefit$22,500Education$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTEVALLO MAIN STREET — $22,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetCentreville Main Street Inc — $22,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetWETUMPKA DOWNTOWN — $22,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMONROEVILLE MAIN STREET — $12,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN GADSDEN INC — $12,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFORT PAYNE-MAIN STREET INC — $12,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE MAIN STREET — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCALERA MAIN STREET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Alabama Power Foundat…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc

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 Main Street Alabama 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.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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