· Public charity
Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation
Provide funds to fulfill medical needs for children, whose needs would otherwise be unmet.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k25 grants · $715k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
- $250k+1 grant · $875k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's of Alabama | $875,000 |
| Eyesight Foundation of Alabama | $200,000 |
| The Bell Center of Early Intervention | $60,000 |
| Kid One Transport | $45,000 |
| Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education | $40,000 |
| Smile-A-Mile | $40,000 |
| UAB Institute for Arts in Medicine | $40,000 |
| The Exceptional Foundation | $35,000 |
| Mitchell's Place | $35,000 |
| Oasis Counseling for Women and Children | $30,000 |
| United Ability | $30,000 |
| UAB Sports Medicine Institute in the Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery | $30,000 |
| Children's Harbor | $30,000 |
| Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind | $30,000 |
| Glenwood Inc | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama6× · 2018–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +29%
- ACAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation4× · 2017–2021 · $870k · revenue +81%
- TETHE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UDUAB Department of Opthalmologyone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TETHE EYESIGHT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- ASAmerican Sports Medicine Institute Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +13%
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.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
To provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
We are dedicated to providing education to families and caregivers, building support systems, coordinating services and nurturing the development of each individual.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
To provide family and child-centered applied behavior analysis (aba) therapy for children with autism and other related disorders. we work with families to provide aba therapy in the home, community, at our support center, and (in special…
To provide care, treatment and training for persons with behavioral health needs, developmental and/or intellectual disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Ambucs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 15% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 42 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 The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
- Who funds Impact America ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds American Sports Medicine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGE 1212 INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway ↗
- Who funds THE MARIANNA GREENE HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL 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 · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · The Maynard Nexsen 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 Quarterbacking Children's Health 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.