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Operation Round-Up of Cullman & Winston Counties at a glance

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Operation Round-Up of Cullman & Winston Counties

To foster, develop and promote education by accumulating and distributing funds for educational purposes in cullman and winston counties of alabama.

$245k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
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 2024.

Education$1.7M
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $164,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $245,223 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,823 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $104k
$10,966
Median grant
1
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEEK HIGH SCHOOL$17,716
WEST POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$15,925
COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$12,689
HOLLY POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$12,108
HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$11,626
ST PAUL'S SCHOOL$11,590
SACRED HEART SCHOOL$11,283
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,966
MEEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$9,488
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$8,560
CULLMAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$8,498
CULLMAN CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL$8,253
COLD SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL$8,187
GOOD HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$6,232
EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,870
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PARKSIDE SCHOOL: $32k → 16%MEEK HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 18%PARKSIDE SCHOOL: $16k → 16%MEEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $13k → 18%MEEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 18%MEEK HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 18%CULLMAN CO SCHOOL SYSTEM: $56k → 16%CULLMAN CO SCHOOL SYSTEM: $47k → 16%CULLMAN CO SCHOOL SYSTEM: $46k → 16%CULLMAN CO SCHOOL SYSTEM: $46k → 16%CULLMAN CO SCHOOL SYSTEM: $39k → 16%CULLMAN COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $26k → 16%CULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $16k → 16%WEST POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $16k → 16%CULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $16k → 16%WEST POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $16k → 16%CULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $15k → 16%CULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $15k → 16%CULLMAN CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL: $14k → 16%ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $13k → 16%CULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $13k → 16%CULLMAN CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL: $13k → 16%WEST POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 16%ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $12k → 16%SACRED HEART SCHOOL: $11k → 16%WEST POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $11k → 16%COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $25k → 16%COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $20k → 16%COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $18k → 16%COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $13k → 16%GOOD HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 16%GOOD HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $11k → 16%HOLLY POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $26k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $23k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $19k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $17k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $17k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $16k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $14k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $14k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $14k → 16%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $11k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $13k → 16%FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $11k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $13k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $13k → 16%HANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $12k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$1.6M
$15k

Still filing today

7%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • CC
    Cullman Child Development Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $611k
  • MH
    MEEK HIGH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $181k
  • CC
    CULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $147k

Funded once

  • SB
    ST BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • WP
    WEST POINT FFA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cullman Child Development Center: $610,913 · OtherCullman Child Development CenterMEEK HIGH SCHOOL: $180,950 · OtherMEEK HIGH SCHOOLCULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $147,293 · OtherCULLMAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMFAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $142,508 · OtherFAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $136,860 · OtherCOLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $107,379 · OtherHANCEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPARKSIDE SCHOOL: $91,975 · OtherPARKSIDE SCHOOLHOLLY POND HIGH SCHOOL: $57,672 · OtherDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMA INC: $56,755 · Other+7 more: $101,837 · Other+7 moreCullman Christian School: $18,193 · Religion
Other$1,634,142Religion$18,193

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCullman Christian School: $18,193 over 2y, 0.8% 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 Cullman Christian School ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Scholarships for Kids…Alabamas Mtns Rivers …
Scholarships for Kids IncAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scholarships for Kids Inc · Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Devel Council Inc

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 Operation Round-Up of Cullman & Winston Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Operation Round-Up of Cullman & Winston Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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