How much did MCWANE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$5.5MHuman Services$480kEducation$238kEnvironment$155kCommunity Improvement$123kPhilanthropy$45kHealth$25kYouth Development$18kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$2.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

techleadershipeducationball

2021

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2022

leadershipscholarship

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $47k
$10k–50k10 grants · $185k
$50k–250k3 grants · $202k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$710k

Total assets

Largest grants

INDIAN HILLS FOUNDATION$100,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$52,000
BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE$50,000
FRESHWATER LAND TRUST$30,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
AG GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM$20,000
ZERO ZERO$10,000
LEADERSHIP ALABAMA$10,000
A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP$10,000
CAHABA RIVER SOCIETY$10,000
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ALABAMA$6,000
UNCF$5,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.1M · 26 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.1M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+47%

Still filing today

50%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

MS
McWANE SCIENCE CENTER
3× · 2020–2023 · $5.5M · revenue +0% · 37% of their budget
FL
FRESHWATER LAND TRUST
5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +136%
AU
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +101%

Funded once

DS
DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $333k
MC
MAHASKA COUNTY YMCAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +37%
Y
YMCAgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Alabama Audubon

Promote conservation and greater knowledge of birds, their habitat and the natural world.

Environment

Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment

Alabama Association of Nonprofits

To strengthen the capacity of alabama's nonprofit sector through professional development, advocacy, and management support, all resulting in better communities and a stronger alabama.

Human Services

Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Promote the conservation of Alabama rivers and watersheds.

Environment

Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit

Alabama Values

Alabama values is a communications hub seeking to amplify progressive voices and policies in alabama. our goal is to provide messenging and communications leadership and infrastructure to organizations and coalitions to build community…

Arts & Culture

Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To raise funding and awareness for life-saving breast cancer research in alabama

Health

Legal Services Alabama Inc

Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.

Crime & Legal

Chamber of Comm Executives Assoc of Alabama Inc

To build a better alabama through stronger chambers of commerce

Community Improvement

Alabama Association of Independent

To build support for alabama's independent colleges and universities and promote a greater appreciation of independent higher education and its importance to the educational, cultural and economic needs of alabama.

Education

The Arc of Central Alabama Inc

Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Birmingham Inc and the most unlike its peers is Auburn University 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

13%

829/6,287

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.

05the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

22/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$5,500,000Other$2,907,357Human Services$480,000Education$238,000Environment$155,000Community Improvement$122,500Philanthropy$45,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of GreaterAL44.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Better Place Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Robert R Meyer 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 organisation MCWANE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: McWANE SCIENCE CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581933712 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on McWANE SCIENCE CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to McWane Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McWane Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MCWANE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to McWane Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MCWANE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to McWane Foundation?

More from the funding graph