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Nall-Whatley Foundation at a glance

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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.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$186kReligion$176kEducation$111kCommunity Improvement$65kAnimals$61kYouth Development$53kArts & Culture$40kHuman Services$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS$2,500
SOJOURN COUNSELING$2,500
CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$2,500
MITCHELL'S PLACE$2,225
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $5k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%FLY RIGHT INC: $2k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING & TRAINING CENTER: $1k → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $350 → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $250 → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $100 → 16%MOUNTAIN BROOK FIRST RESPONDER FOUNDATION: $100 → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$844k · 54 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
96

Total granted

$844k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+12%

Still filing today

44%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BZ
    Birmingham Zoo Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +12%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +17%
  • MB
    Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation
    4× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +571%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • OC
    OAK CITY CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
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
Baptist Health System Inc

"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,…

Health
4
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
5
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

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

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6
Pathways Professional Counseling

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.

Human Services
7
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
8
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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9
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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10
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
11
Birmingham Corps

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

Employment
12
The Bridge Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADAR: $100,000 · OtherRADARIndividual grant recipient: $92,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCanterbury United Methodist Church: $76,700 · OtherCanterbury United Methodist ChurchO'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER AT UAB: $59,900 · OtherO'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER AT UABCENTER OF EXECUTIVE LEADERS: $51,000 · OtherCENTER OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER: $27,850 · Other+115 more: $356,833 · Other+115 moreUNTIL THEY KNOW: $26,440 · PhilanthropyBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $18,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyBirmingham Zoo Inc: $58,961 · Animals+2 more: $1,050 · AnimalsMAGIC MOMENTS: $17,030 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $15,550 · HealthAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC: $9,380 · HealthBRIGHT SPOT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $2,500 · Health+6 more: $1,850 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesUrban Ministry Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $3,250 · Human ServicesFLY RIGHT INC: $2,000 · Human Services+4 more: $1,650 · Human ServicesMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $20,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $2,500 · Education+5 more: $3,400 · EducationSOJOURN COUNSELING: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $6,392 · Arts & CultureSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC: $5,600 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $700 · Arts & Culture
Other$765,183Philanthropy$64,640Animals$60,011Health$58,810Human Services$56,900Education$30,900Arts & Culture$20,192

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $58,961 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNTIL THEY KNOW: $26,440 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetBIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $18,150 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $17,030 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $15,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC: $9,380 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $8,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT SPOT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSOJOURN COUNSELING: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $6,392 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC: $5,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $4,980 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Assistance Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLY RIGHT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF SYLACAUGA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC CITY WOODWORKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIT FOR LIFE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AMBUCS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
  • 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 BRIGHT SPOT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURN COUNSELING ↗
  • Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Altecstyslinger Found…Hill Crest Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…The Hackney FoundationRobert R Meyer Founda…Debardeleben Foundati…Alabama Power Foundat…Dunn-French FoundationThe Joseph S Bruno Ch…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL69.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nall-Whatley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nall-Whatley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 161 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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