· Private foundation
McAbee Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREEDOM FARM | $50,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL BSA | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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,…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McAbee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McAbee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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