· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- HSHuntsville Symphony Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FRIENDS OF HUNTSVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH 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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pei Ling Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pei Ling Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Pei Ling’s filings →