· Private foundation
Nall-Whatley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANTERBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,700 |
| USIEA | $25,000 |
| RADAR | $20,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $12,129 |
| CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP | $10,000 |
| O'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER AT UAB | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,100 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| GLOBEWORKS | $4,500 |
| THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOJOURN COUNSELING | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $2,225 |
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 (FY18–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BZBirmingham Zoo Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +12%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +17%
- MBMountain Brook City Schools Foundation4× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +571%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2021 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $11k
- OCOAK CITY CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
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.
"as a witness to the love of god, revealed through jesus christ, the baptist health system is committed to ministries that enhance the health, dignity, and wholeness of those we serve, through integrity, compassion, advocacy,…
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.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The ministry is a not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the state of alabama as a ministry whose purpose is to offer christ-centered counseling for children, youth, adults, and families.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sojourn Counseling. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 161 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 Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNTIL THEY KNOW ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURN COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SPOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS 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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Hackney Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable 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 Nall-Whatley 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.
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.