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Pleiad Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $494k
- $250k+2 grants · $665k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| UAB - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY | $265,000 |
| UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $151,000 |
| VIRGINIA SAMFORD THEATER | $75,000 |
| HUNTINGDON COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| FRESHWATER LAND TRUST | $57,500 |
| METROPOLITAN ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - DKE BUILDING FUND | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $35,000 |
| JAFI | $25,000 |
| TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
57 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $489k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +74%- HCHUNTINGDON COLLEGE5× · 2018–2024 · $260k · revenue +13%
- RPRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UHUAB - HEERSINK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEAN'S FUND FOR EXCELLENCEone grant, 2021 · $100k
- GBGreater Birmingham Ministriesone grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To promote the value of using a realtor and to enhance our members' opportunities to serve customers in a professional, ethical and profitable manner within an environment that fosters cooperation among the membership.
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.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Purpose is to use income produced by the trust to support the operations of bma at the direction of the directors.
Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships
The mission of the birmingham bar association is to uphold the strength and integrity of the legal profession, promote justice, foster civility, and support our members through professional development, education, and community engagement.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To advance and promote the economic environment for business, and to advocate responsive government and quality education, while preserving alpharetta's unique community characteristics.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is Desert Island Supply Co. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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. 56 of the 125 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 BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ON THE RISE ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Birmingham Ministries ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Arts Center ↗
- Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA BIRMINGHAM 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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation
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 Pleiad Foundation 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.