· Public charity
Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc
Conservation, development, and proper use of the natural resources within the development area of autauga, bullock, butler, elmore, lee, lowndes, macon and montgomery counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 63 grants below total $874,081 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $907,171 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,090 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY WHITEWATER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CITY OF SMITHS STATION | $40,000 |
| GREENVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $35,000 |
| BUTLER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $30,645 |
| AUTAUGA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL ALA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION | $25,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY CONTRACTS & ACCOUNTING | $24,679 |
| BULLOCK COUNTY BOE | $18,400 |
| MACON COUNTY COMMISSION | $17,575 |
| ALABAMA HERB SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ELMORE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| BILLINGSLEY VFD | $15,000 |
| BULLOCK COUNTY FIRE CHIEF'S ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 82% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 34 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k 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
- FVFARMVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT2× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +31% · 28% of their budget
- OCOPELIKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue +24%
- TUTuskegee University2× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- BVBurkville Volunteer Fire Deptone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -58%
- COCITY OF GEORGIANAone grant, 2022 · $30k
- COCITY OF TALLASSEEone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
The mission of the stapleton fire department is to provide protection of life, property and environment from fires and other emergencies for the community of stapleton.
Fire department for the local community of stickleyville, va
Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama
Volunteer fire department services
Volunteer fire department that serves the city of farmington, ms
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
To provide fire protection and rescue services for fannin county, georgia
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, Haz-Mat, and first responder emergencymedical services to the citizens of Madison County AL and surrounding communities. Provided safety education and awareness. Area served is…
Fire and rescue services
Purchasing any firefighting equipment without paying taxes.
The department provides volunteer fire and EMS service to approximately 3800 residents (and those passing through on I-40) in East Roane County Tennessee.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bighouse 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 22 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 146 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.
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils · Alfa Foundation · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · Cornerstone Community Outreach Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Alabama Humanities Alliance · Big Cedar Education Foundation · Junior League of Montgomery Inc · The Black Belt Community Foundation 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 Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council 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.
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
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.