· Public charity
National Space Club - Huntsville
To stimulate the exchange of ideas and information about rocketry and asronautics and to promote recognition of u.s.
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 8 grants below total $124,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $240,736 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,236 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 $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USSRC FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE | $28,000 |
| UAH FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| WHITESBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| AAMU FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| ARTS HUNTSVILLE | $8,000 |
| FIRST IN ALABAMA | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $279k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +137% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +177%- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +108%
- AAALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $114k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- AAMSTECone grant, 2018 · $37k
- IFINNOVATION FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $8k
- AFASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +351%
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 Trusts mission is to support and improve educational excellence at Alabama A&M University through the granting of academic scholarships at the Unviversity, the endowment of academic chairs, the subsidizing of current faculty positions,…
Educating the youth at asu
Support public shcools of monroe county al
The Alabama Southern Foundation provides support to the local community college for various events and as requested for student support. The student body is primarily from moderate to low income and many will not have access to technology…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To contribute to the educational experience of the students in the Alexander City School District and promote excellence for the development of education programs for the overall enhancement of the Alexander City School District
The Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists has been established to: make educational grants to support individual scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in applied geosciences; prepare literature with…
To advocate the importance of higher education in bettering the lives of people in alabama.
Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi
Support STEM - sendng high school studentsfrom various countries to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL
Provide financial and other resources for the benefit and support of the Alabama School of Health Sciences, a specialty high school within the Alabama public school system that will offer curricula, instruction and training primarily…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is First in Alabama. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST IN ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Calhoun College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Alabama Association For The Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAP AND GOWN PROJECT ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 National Space Club - Huntsville 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.