How much does Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found give?

Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found reported 16 grants totaling $146,389 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Philanthropy (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: St Luke's Episcopal Church ($353k), United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($175k), Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc ($148k).

Does Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found 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 Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Hackney Foundation.

Where is Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found based?

Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found is based in AL.

Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found

Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found at a glance

· Private foundation

Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$78k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$394kPhilanthropy$175kArts & Culture$160kAnimals$115kEducation$91kHuman Services$49kScience & Tech$39kCommunity Improvement$17kOther$0

02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k13 grants · $33k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$50k–250k1 grant · $78k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST PETER'S ANGLICAN CHURCH	$78,389
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA	$25,000
ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU	$8,000
LINLEY HEFLIN UNIT	$5,000
WEARS VALLEY RANCH	$5,000
GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY	$5,000
LITTLE ELAM BAPTIST CHURCH	$2,000
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION	$1,000
BIG SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH	$1,000
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART	$1,000
STRATFORD HALL MUSUEM	$1,000
URBAN MINISTRY INC	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
KING'S HOME	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 29 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+9%

Still filing today

69%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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
7× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +74%
RM
RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $148k · revenue +152%
AW
ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $88k · revenue +69%

Funded once

CA
CHRIST ANGLICAN CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $10k
RC
ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM CENTENNIAL FUND
one grant, 2017 · $5k
TB
THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -60%

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.

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

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Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education

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

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Alabama Bankers Association Inc

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

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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

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc; the most unlike its peers is Railroad Park 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

17/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$476,409Philanthropy$175,000Arts & Culture$162,080Animals$115,359Education$99,000Human Services$47,000Community Improvement$12,000

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

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.

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 Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Hackney Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Maynard Nexsen 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 Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report 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.

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