· Private foundation
Protective Life 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k143 grants · $389k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $988k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $700,000 |
| UAB LONGEVITY CENTER | $300,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - BRIDGES TO DIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM PROMISE INC | $200,000 |
| THE AMERICAN COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| WOODLAWN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC | $75,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA | $65,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| VULCAN PARK AND MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE (RMT) | $50,000 |
| THE HOPE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
277 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2024, 170 since wound down; 95 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $679k 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 INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +38%- BPBirmingham Promise Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $805k · revenue +85%
- WUWOODLAWN UNITED INC6× · 2019–2024 · $763k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- T2TWG 2021 BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue -99%
- UUABone grant, 2022 · $318k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - BRIDGES TO DIVERSITY IN BUSINESSone grant, 2023 · $200k
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 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 Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
The alabama best practices center helps teachers and administrators develop the competence, commitment and courage to do whatever it takes to improve student learning.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Mark Cuban Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
304 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. 304 of the 666 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
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
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The American College ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Innovation Depot Inc ↗
- Who funds TWG 2021 BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Hope Institute ↗
- Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Momentum Alumnae Program Inc ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds UAB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Kings Home 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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Hugh Kaul 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 Protective Life 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
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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