· Private foundation
Pei Ling Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HudsonAlpha Foundation | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Community Ballet Association | $32,500 |
| Huntsville Chamber Music Guild | $27,000 |
| Huntsville Master Chorale | $19,000 |
| Arts Huntsville | $15,600 |
| Huntsville Hospital Foundation | $15,000 |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Huntsville Botanical Garden | $10,000 |
| Huntsville Museum of Art | $8,400 |
| Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Studio 60 Senior Center | $5,000 |
| Downtown Huntsville Inc | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CBCOMMUNITY BALLET ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $89k · revenue +52%
- HCHUNTSVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +27%
- MBMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TUThe University of Alabama in Huntsilleone grant, 2023 · $23k
- HPHUNTSVILLE POLICE CITIZENS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue 0%
- HCHuntsville-Madison County Senior Center Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -23%
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.
Entertainment | Opera Performing Arts Organization.
To promote and encourage the understanding, appreciation, and study of the art of music
Promotion and development of civic and economic interests
To foster, promote and increase the musical knowledge and appreciation of the public in connection and cooperation with and in support of the huntsville symphony orchestra.
Make huntsville a nationally recognized hub for contemporary classical music by exploring the music of today, exposing it to a whole new audience, and giving a multi-sensory experience that serves one common goal: illuminating the music…
To support Band activities
The Mission of Theatre Huntsville is connecting you to excellent and entertaining storytelling and creative artistic opportunities. Our Vision is to enrich our community through the shared experience of live performing arts as North…
The organization exists to support local educational programs.
Non Profit Museum
To coordinate, promote, and provide educational information.
The mission of the huntsville brass band (the band) is to develop, foster, and promote the musical style of the brass band in huntsville and the surrounding areas and to promote the general, social, educational, and charitable works…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Ballet Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Soar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BALLET ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE MASTER CHORALE ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE POLICE CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GADSDEN CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Huntsville Inc ↗
- Who funds TWICKENHAM FEST ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUNTSVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ↗
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 Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Pei Ling Charitable Trust 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.