· Private foundation
Richard M Scrushy Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of RICHARD M SCRUSHY CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR OUR JOURNEY | $6,000 |
| JCCHS CAVS CLUB | $5,000 |
| VAPOR | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VINEYARD FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| JEFFERSON ALCOHOLIC FDN | $500 |
| EASTERN CENTRAL ATHLETICS | $500 |
| THE GROVE SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- JAJEFFERSON ALCOHOLIC FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +44%
- TGTHE GROVE SCHOOL5× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +54%
- SSMILE-A-MILE6× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- VFVINEYARD FAMILY SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $11k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +33%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To empower individuals, and the communities in which they live, with the skills and services they need to be responsible for their own well-being.
Residential sober living house. assit men in overcoming addiction and reintergrating into society.
Social services
Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.
To offer a christ centered way out of a seemingly hopeless situation for victims of domestic violence.
Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics
Half way house for diagnostic evaluation, treatment, shelter, counseling, educational program, and rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts.
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blanket Fort Hope and the most unlike its peers is Garretts Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 HOOVER ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON ALCOHOLIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GROVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds SAV-A-LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OUR JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE HOTS & A COT ↗
- Who funds BLANKET FORT HOPE ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SELMA AREA FOOD BANK ↗
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 · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc
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 Richard M Scrushy Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.