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McWane Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$434k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Science & Tech$5.5MEducation$959kYouth Development$643kHuman Services$544kHealth$461kPhilanthropy$373kArts & Culture$278kFood & Nutrition$233kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
3
States reached
$589k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CAHABA RIVER SOCIETY$10,000
A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP$10,000
LEADERSHIP ALABAMA$10,000
ZERO ZERO$10,000
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ALABAMA$6,000
GIRL SPRING$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAHASKA COUNTY YMCA: $250k → 10%YMCA: $200k → 18%JUST KEEP SMILLING: $3k → 16%KID ONE TRANSPORT: $5k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $5k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $5k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $5k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $5k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
IA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

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 · 27 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
40

Total granted

$8.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+8%

Still filing today

63%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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 +11% · 37% of their budget
  • AG
    A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    3× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +20%
  • GI
    GLENWOOD INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • DS
    DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $333k
  • MC
    MAHASKA COUNTY YMCA
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -81%
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

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

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2
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
3
Alabama Alliance Network

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

Public Benefit
4
A Best Practices Center

The alabama best practices center helps teachers and administrators develop the competence, commitment and courage to do whatever it takes to improve student learning.

Education
5
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
6
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment
7
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
8
Alabama Association of Nonprofits

Strengthen and support alabama nonprofits in serving their communities.

Human Services
9
Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives

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.

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10
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

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11
Business Council of Alabama

To improve industry and labor conditions for the state of alabama through the provision of educational programs for members and advocacy efforts on the behalf of members.

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12
Chamber of Comm Executives Assoc of Alabama Inc

To build a better alabama through stronger chambers of commerce

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr16%80%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
15%
794/5,331

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 77 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $5,500,000 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIENCE CENTERDARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $333,000 · OtherDARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINDIAN HILLS FOUNDATION — $300,000 · OtherINDIAN HILLS FOUNDATIONJONES VALLEY TEACHING FARM — $233,333 · OtherJONES VALLEY TEACHING FARMGLENWOOD INC — $200,000 · OtherGLENWOOD INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM — $159,125 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRE…ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $115,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherInnovation Depot Inc — $99,999 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM — $85,000 · OtherVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+43 more — $606,900 · Other+43 moreA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $525,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentMAHASKA COUNTY YMCA — $250,000 · Human ServicesYMCA — $200,000 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCES — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $12,500 · Human ServicesBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $140,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $48,000 · EducationBUILDING PEACE INC — $25,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $12,500 · EducationTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $10,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $25,000 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA INC — $25,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 · HealthFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $155,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$5,500,000Other$2,332,357Youth Development$557,500Human Services$487,500Education$255,500Health$160,000Environment$155,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $5,500,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $525,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMAHASKA COUNTY YMCA — $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYMCA — $200,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGLENWOOD INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $155,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetInnovation Depot Inc — $99,999 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $47,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC — $45,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING PEACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC — $17,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL — $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RESPECT ORGANIZATION — $15,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $12,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZERO ZERO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC — $6,600 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLSPRING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWORKSHOPS EMPOWERMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALABAMA VETERAN — $3,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEST INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST KEEP SMILING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTECHBRIDGE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Mike and Gillian Good…Altecstyslinger Found…The Community Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…Hill Crest Foundation…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…
Protective Life FoundationAL57× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · 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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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