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Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund

The fund is devoted to the benefit of mankind, the education of youth, the relief of human suffering, and propagation of the christian religion.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$382k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Religion$2.5MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$2.2MInternational$2.1MHousing & Shelter$828kYouth Development$664kCivil Rights$642kHealth$640kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 65 grants below total $1,642,440 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,019,791 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $377,351 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $576k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $508k
  • $250k+1 grant · $382k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IPC$382,000
SUMMER ADVENTURES IN LEARNING$147,000
KIRKWOOD BY THE RIVER$132,500
MEDICAL MISSIONS INC$66,000
FIRST LIGHT$60,000
STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM$52,000
MWANDI UCZ MISSION HOSPITAL AMERICAN PARTNERS$50,000
LIVING RIVER$48,000
MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION$38,000
16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH$25,000
LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE$25,000
FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING & FAMILY CENTER$25,000
BE TEAM INTERNATIONAL$22,000
SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$20,000
FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES$20,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HIS KIDS TOO: $13k → 19%RALEIGH'S PLACE: $28k → 16%TROY RESILIENCE PROJECT: $20k → 27%THE WOMEN OF MY HOPE: $14k → 11%RALEIGH'S PLACE: $20k → 16%HIS KIDS TOO: $21k → 19%FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%RALEIGH'S PLACE: $20k → 16%HIS KIDS TOO: $20k → 19%HIS KIDS TOO: $13k → 19%MANNA MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%WATER BY WOMEN: $14k → 15%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $13k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $12k → 16%OAK MOUNTAIN MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $12k → 7%OAK MOUNTAIN MISSIONS: $11k → 7%URBAN MINISTRY: $23k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $15k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $13k → 16%CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER: $20k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $15k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $15k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $12k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $15k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF BIRMINGHAM: $13k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $73k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $73k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $70k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $70k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $66k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $65k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $65k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $60k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $15k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $13k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $13k → 16%YMCA OF BIRMINGHAM METRO: $12k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $43k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICES: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $12k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $14k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 131 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

131 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
60

Total granted

$12M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • PR
    PRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT HOMES OF BIRMINGHAM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $923k · revenue +63%
  • FL
    FIRST LIGHT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $541k · revenue +93%
  • SO
    STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $488k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • MW
    MAKE WAY PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue -74%
  • MM
    MEDICAL MISSIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • MM
    MANNA MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -42%

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

04Your field

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.

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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
2
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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3
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
4
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

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Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
6
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
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Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
8
Advance Memphis

To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.

Education
9
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
10
African Children's Mission Inc

Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.

Religion
11
Covenant Academy of Mobile

Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.

Human Services
12
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is College Admissions Made Possible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsYouth Development ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Community Food PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Domestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Ymca Youth DevelopmentFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Developmental Disabilities …Youth Mentoring ProgramsCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringUnited Way AffiliatesSchool District FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%5%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr15%33%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr17%12%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/197
the rest of the field
14%
3,154/22,582

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

174 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. 174 of the 202 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/174
Grantees still filing
123/174
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IPC — $2,458,320 · OtherIPCPRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT HOMES OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $922,935 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT HOMES OF BIRMINGHAM INCOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC — $325,000 · Other+84 more — $2,419,960 · Other+84 moreLIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC — $359,667 · InternationalLIFT UP THE VULNER…Medical Missions Inc Attn Todd Garrett — $320,350 · InternationalMedical Missions I…The Mwandi United Church of Zambia Mission Hospital Board of Trustees — $238,325 · InternationalThe Mwandi United …MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION — $232,000 · InternationalMEDICAL BENEVOLENC…CURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $220,000 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL…BE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC — $202,228 · InternationalBE TEAM INTERNATIO…MARION MEDICAL MISSION — $148,940 · InternationalMARION MEDICAL MIS…+13 more — $410,600 · International+13 moreFIRST LIGHT INC — $541,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INCCOMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC — $119,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FURNI…M-POWER Ministries — $95,500 · Human ServicesM-POWER Ministr…His Kids Too Inc — $77,000 · Human ServicesGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC — $74,500 · Human ServicesRALEIGH'S PLACE — $72,500 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $72,000 · Human Services+29 more — $719,170 · Human Services+29 moreSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $488,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMI…Teach for America Inc — $300,000 · EducationTeach for Amer…Friends of Forman Christian College Inc — $111,700 · EducationFriends of For…SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $98,000 · EducationSPRING VALLEY …THE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $90,000 · EducationMARYVILLE COLLEGE — $88,500 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $82,000 · EducationLegacy Schools — $77,500 · EducationFOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC — $70,000 · Education+15 more — $333,200 · Education+15 moreSUMMER ADVENTURES IN LEARNING — $441,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $66,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILD UP — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHSERVE INC — $25,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $54,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC — $292,000 · ReligionDesigns For Hope — $45,000 · ReligionLIVING THE FAITH MINISTRY — $20,000 · ReligionUNITED PRESBYTERIANS OF WILCOX CO — $18,250 · ReligionKINGDOM FAMILY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — $17,500 · Religion+3 more — $23,500 · ReligionOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $63,000 · HealthSMILE-A-MILE — $40,500 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $37,000 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $35,500 · HealthUNITED ABILITY INC — $35,500 · HealthVAX 2 STOP CANCER — $27,500 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $24,500 · HealthATEAM MINISTRIES — $20,000 · HealthSHELBY COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $17,500 · HealthFREEDOM SOURCE INC — $15,000 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $14,500 · Health+6 more — $55,500 · Health
Other$6,126,215International$2,132,110Human Services$1,770,670Education$1,738,900Youth Development$641,000Religion$416,250Health$386,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT HOMES OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $922,935 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $541,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $488,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetLIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC — $359,667 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC — $325,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMedical Missions Inc Attn Todd Garrett — $320,350 over 7y, 40% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC — $292,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetThe Mwandi United Church of Zambia Mission Hospital Board of Trustees — $238,325 over 6y, 30% of budgetMEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION — $232,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC — $202,228 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $194,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMARION MEDICAL MISSION — $148,940 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE WAY PARTNERS INC — $120,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC — $119,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $114,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Forman Christian College Inc — $111,700 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $98,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetM-POWER Ministries — $95,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC — $93,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $93,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE — $88,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc — $86,051 over 5y, 47% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $82,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLegacy Schools — $77,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC — $74,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRALEIGH'S PLACE — $72,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $72,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC — $70,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMinistry of Hope Lesotho Inc — $66,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $66,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC — $64,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $63,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $63,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC — $57,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $57,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC — $55,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBUILD UP — $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $53,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham — $49,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetOAK MOUNTAIN MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $48,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALABAMA POSSIBLE — $47,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetImpact America — $46,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDesigns For Hope — $45,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUrban Ministry Inc — $44,340 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC — $44,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budget
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 PRESBYTERIAN RETIREMENT HOMES OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER ADVENTURES IN LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Medical Missions Inc Attn Todd Garrett ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Mwandi United Church of Zambia Mission Hospital Board of Trustees ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BE TEAM INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds MARION MEDICAL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE WAY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Forman Christian College Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds M-POWER Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Legacy Schools ↗
  • Who funds His Kids Too Inc ↗
  • Who funds GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds RALEIGH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Ministry of Hope Lesotho Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Alabama Power Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…Mike and Gillian Good…Robert R Meyer Founda…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Altecstyslinger Found…United Way of Central…Junior League of Birm…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL174.3× affinity109 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 · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Junior League of Birmingham Inc

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 Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 202 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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