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National Space Club - Huntsville at a glance

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National Space Club - Huntsville

To stimulate the exchange of ideas and information about rocketry and asronautics and to promote recognition of u.s.

$241k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$614kHuman Services$177kRecreation & Sports$59kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $124,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $240,736 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,236 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$239k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER: $102k → 11%USSRC FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%USSRC FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER: $22k → 11%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER: $19k → 11%USSRC FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER: $13k → 11%USSRC FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER: $9k → 11%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$768k · 8 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$768k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
0%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +177%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +108%
  • AA
    ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $114k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • A
    AMSTEC
    one grant, 2018 · $37k
  • IF
    INNOVATION FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • AF
    ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +351%
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
Alabama a&M University Trust for Educational Excellence

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,…

Education
2
Alcorn State University National Alumni Assn Foundation Inc

Educating the youth at asu

Education
3
Monroe County Education Foundation

Support public shcools of monroe county al

Education
4
Alabama Southern Community College Foundation

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…

Education
5
The University Foundation

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.

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6
Alexander City Schools Education Foundation

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

Education
7
American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
8
The Higher Education Partnership Foundation Inc

To advocate the importance of higher education in bettering the lives of people in alabama.

Education
9
St Anthony Scholarship Foundation

Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi

Education
10
Endeavour Scholarship Foundation

Support STEM - sendng high school studentsfrom various countries to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL

Education
11
The Harvard Club of Alabama
Education
12
Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences Foundation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION: $188,522 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATIONALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $113,500 · OtherALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF AL IN HUNTSVILLE: $58,552 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF AL IN HUNTSVILLEAMSTEC: $36,500 · OtherAMSTEC+3 more: $25,637 · Other+3 moreUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $278,953 · Human ServicesUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION F…Calhoun College Foundation: $38,000 · EducationCalhoun Colle…THE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · EducationTHE SCHOOLS F…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEO…INNOVATION FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationINNOVATION FO…ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $7,400 · EducationASCTE FOUNDAT…CAP AND GOWN PROJECT: $6,000 · EducationCAP AND GOWN …FIRST IN ALABAMA: $46,353 · Youth DevelopmentAlabama Association For The Arts Inc: $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$422,711Human Services$278,953Education$101,400Youth Development$46,353Arts & Culture$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $278,953 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION: $188,522 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $113,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetFIRST IN ALABAMA: $46,353 over 5y, 13% of budgetCalhoun College Foundation: $38,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $7,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAP AND GOWN PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Aerojet Rocketdyne Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 National Space Club - Huntsville funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Space Club - Huntsville. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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 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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