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Pleiad Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
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.

Recreation & Sports$2.1MEducation$2.0MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$771kReligion$586kPhilanthropy$564kHuman Services$311kHousing & Shelter$275kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $690k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA SAMFORD THEATER$200,000
UAB - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY$150,000
CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
FRESHWATER LAND TRUST$65,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH$35,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
TURNING POINT FOUNDATION$25,000
UNITED WAY$20,000
OURHOME ALABAMA$20,000
SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $301k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $10k → 13%JIMMY RANE FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $10k → 13%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $5k → 13%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 18%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 18%URBAN MINISTRY: $35k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $50k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
UT
TN
NC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 66 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
59

Total granted

$8.7M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+22%

Still filing today

53%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +74%
  • RP
    RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +28%
  • HC
    HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $260k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UH
    UAB - HEERSINK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEAN'S FUND FOR EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • GB
    Greater Birmingham Ministries
    one grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue -25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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

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.

1
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
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
3
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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4
Uab Educational Foundation

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.

Education
5
Birmingham Promise Inc

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

Education
6
Birmingham Association of Realtors Inc

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.

Community Improvement
7
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment
8
Birmingham Museum of Art Endowment Trust

Purpose is to use income produced by the trust to support the operations of bma at the direction of the directors.

Arts & Culture
9
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
10
Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce Inc

To advance and promote the economic environment for business, and to advocate responsive government and quality education, while preserving alpharetta's unique community characteristics.

Community Improvement
11
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health
12
Create Birmingham

To support workforce development, entrepreneurial ventures and job growth in non-profit and commercial creative industries.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham; the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 136 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
38/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION: $1,600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATIONUAB DIVISION OF NEUROSURGERY: $695,000 · OtherUAB DIVISION OF NEUROSURGERYBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $652,500 · OtherBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $533,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONVIRGINIA SAMFORD THEATER: $532,500 · OtherVIRGINIA SAMFORD THEATERUAB - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $415,000 · OtherUAB - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $400,000 · Other+98 more: $2,832,712 · Other+98 moreHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $260,000 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationSamford University: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $32,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $330,000 · PhilanthropyHelen Keller Foundation Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $260,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $57,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $95,000 · Human ServicesUrban Ministry Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $80,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC: $40,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Arts Center: $50,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $28,300 · Arts & CultureTHE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALLARD HOUSE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,500 · Arts & CultureFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $207,500 · Environment
Other$7,660,712Education$662,500Philanthropy$390,000Recreation & Sports$317,000Human Services$301,000Arts & Culture$238,800Environment$207,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $652,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $533,000 over 9y, 36% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $330,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE: $260,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $207,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $95,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUrban Ministry Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $80,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMetropolitan Arts Center: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC: $40,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHelen Keller Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetSamford University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $28,300 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWEBSTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $16,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER KIDS: $7,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Dance Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMomentum Alumnae Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBeyond the Line Fund Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ALABAMA ARCHIVES: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ON THE RISE ↗
  • Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Alabama Power Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Mike and Gillian Good…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…Altecstyslinger Found…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…Hill Crest Foundation…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL66.4× affinity32 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 · 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

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 Pleiad Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pleiad Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 136 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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