· Public charity
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc
The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $289,095 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $42,709,255 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,420,160 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 $10k6 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALABAMA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COOPERATIVES | $80,000 |
| ELMORE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $50,955 |
| ROCKFORD BAPTIST CHURCH | $39,636 |
| FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA | $33,710 |
| FEEDING THE GULF COAST | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN LOVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC | $11,982 |
| AL HOOKS PRODUCE | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND FLOORING AND CONSTRUCTION LLC | $8,500 |
| ALL SAINTS KINGDOM CHURCH | $7,700 |
| LONG CREEK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CHILTON COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC | $6,655 |
| MBA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC | $6,246 |
| ULINE | $6,211 |
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 (FY24–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 90% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $99k · revenue 0%
- RBROCKFORD BAPTIST CHURCH2× · 2024–2025 · $55k
- AHAL HOOKS PRODUCE2× · 2024–2025 · $50k
Funded once
- WIWELCOME INCone grant, 2024 · $167k
- SBSOUTHSIDE BAPT CH - GREENVILLE - SHEPHERD'S TABLEone grant, 2024 · $92k
- MUMETROPOLITAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $67k
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 feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
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.
Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To provide food and general assistance to individuals of Limestone County Alabama who are facing short term financial crisesTo mobilize churches of Limestone County to provide a prayerful way to meet the physical and spiritual needs of…
The St. Luke Food Pantry is an IRS-recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Mississippi. The organization is committed to continuing its long-standing history of providing food boxes to the eligible…
To provide lunches to the poor people of anniston and calhoun county, alabama
The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding the Gulf Coast and the most unlike its peers is Caring for Citizens of Alabama. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 32 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 FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ELMORE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds Autauga Interfaith Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LOVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW BEGINNING FOR YOU INC ↗
- Who funds CHILTON COUNTY EMERGENCY CENTER INC ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Heart of Alabama Food Bank 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.
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.