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McAbee Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREEDOM FARM | $50,000 |
| BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL BSA | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TUSCALOOSA | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX HOUSE | $6,250 |
| WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA MARINES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DCH FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BRITTO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +45% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- BWBLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +47%
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +63%
- HOHOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TRTUSCALOOSA ROTARY HONOR FLIGHTone grant, 2018 · $5k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -100%
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 solicit, collect and administer funds and property to be used soley for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
To end hunger by assisting food bank networks in obtaining more food and funds, fostering public awareness of the food banks' mission, and creating partnerships to alleviate hunger in alabama.
To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.
Social services
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
To receive, invest and manage funds for the benefit of the arc of tuscaloosa county.
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of West Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Britto Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 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 BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds DCH Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FARM INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA SPORTS AND TOURISM ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC ↗
- Who funds Stillman College ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HANK POORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gold Star Mentors INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Tuscaloosa ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds USS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRITTO FOUNDATION ↗
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 Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · The James I Harrison Family Foundation · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 McAbee Family 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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