· Public charity
One Roof
It is the mission of ONE ROOF to equip and empower our community to prevent and end homelessness through advocacy, education, and coordination of services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA | $110,904 |
| COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES (FIREHOUSE) | $63,028 |
| FIRST LIGHT INC | $54,441 |
| PATHWAYS INC | $50,000 |
| BRIDGE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM URBAN LEAGUE | $27,646 |
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 (FY21–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- CDCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $315k · revenue +7%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM2× · 2021–2022 · $286k · revenue +1%
- PIPATHWAYS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $266k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $41k
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.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
Bridges ends homelessness through volunteer-driven outreach and individual case management focusing on health, housing, and independence. bridges forms relationships with those experiencing homelessness while meeting their most urgent…
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.
The mission of bridge communities is to transition homeless families to self-sufficiency by working with partners to provide mentoring, housing, and supportive services.
Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.
Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.
Roots partners with young adults on their journey to stability.
Shelter and counseling for abused women and their children
Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cooperative Downtown Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Towers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DANNON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Towers ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Urban League 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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 One Roof 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.
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Find your warmest path to One Roof through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.