· Private foundation
Collat Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Birmingham Zoo | $100,000 |
| Alabama Holocaust Education Center | $100,000 |
| Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charaties Inc | $100,000 |
| Israel ParaSport Center | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $100,000 |
| United Way of Central Alabama | $75,000 |
| Community Food Bank of Central Alabama | $55,500 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | $55,000 |
| Sixteenth Street Baptist Church | $50,000 |
| Mose and Garrison Siskin Memorial Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries | $50,000 |
| Birmingham Jewish Foundation | $50,000 |
| Megan Montgomery Foundation | $50,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Alabama | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $569k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +21%- AHALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +14%
- RPRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RVRAINBOW VILLAGE INCone grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
- CJCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +12%
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 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.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Railroad Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 38 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds Full Circle BHM LLC ↗
- Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
- Who funds Bridgeways Inc ↗
- Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
- Who funds Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett 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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham 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 Collat Family Foundation Inc 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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