· Public charity
Max Credit Union
Max is a state-chartered community credit union serving approximately 126,000 members in the montgomery, alabama and surrounding areas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $39,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $89,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER REGION UNITED WAY | $16,500 |
| MONTGOMERY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| YMCA BROWN BAG BUS | $7,000 |
| STORYBROOK FARMS | $6,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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 boys and girls club of southwest alabama actively works with local youth of all backgrounds to develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and future leaders in our community.
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the csra through programs designed to build healthy spirit, mind, and body, reflecting the values of the judeo-christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people.
Inspire and enable young people to reach potential.
To nurture strong minds, healthy bodies and community spirit through youth driven, quality programming in a safe and fun environment.
The kiwanis club of montgomery is a non-profit community organization whose goals are to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build a better community in montgomery, alabama and surrounding areas.
To enable and motivate all youth within a safe environment to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens according to judeo-christian principles.
The montgomery ymca, reflecting its judeo-christian heritage, is an association of volunteers, members, and staff open to and serving all, providing programs and services which develop spirit, mind, and body. montgomery ymca statement of…
Mission statement: it is the mission of the family sunshine center to bring help, hope and healing to victims of family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking through a crisis line, emergency shelter, transitional housing,…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association. 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.
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 RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds YMCA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAT SOUTH ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI ↗
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: Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · We3 Fund · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama
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 Max Credit Union 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.