Alabama · Private foundation
Samford-Cannon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $470k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $147,752
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Samford-Cannon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $470k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $438k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $526k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $434k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $426k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn University Foundation | $463,652 | 5 | 0% |
| Huntingdon College | $207,241 | 4 | 0% |
| Opelika Chamber Foundation Inc | $151,521 | 3 | 9% |
| East Alabama Medical Center Foundation | $108,945 | 5 | 2% |
| US Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation | $80,019 | 4 | 0% |
| Hudson Family Foundation Inc | $57,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Food Bank of East Alabama Inc | $37,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jason Dufner Charitable Foundation | $33,385 | 3 | 36% |
| Washington and Lee University | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Storybook Farm Inc | $19,700 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samford-Cannon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Scott Foundation Inc · Bruce Pearl Family Foundation · E L Spencer Jr Foundation Inc · Pleiad Foundation · Davison Bruce Foundation · Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Foundation · Alfa Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
About Samford-Cannon Foundation
- How much does Samford-Cannon Foundation give?
- Samford-Cannon Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $469,973 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Samford-Cannon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (21%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Samford-Cannon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Auburn University Foundation ($464k), Huntingdon College ($207k), Opelika Chamber Foundation Inc ($152k).
- Does Samford-Cannon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samford-Cannon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samford-Cannon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Scott Foundation Inc, Bruce Pearl Family Foundation.
- Where is Samford-Cannon Foundation based?
- Samford-Cannon Foundation is based in AL.
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