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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of SAMUEL E UPCHURCH JR CHARITABLE FOUND’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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| 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 |
| WEARS VALLEY RANCH | $5,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| LINLEY HEFLIN UNIT | $5,000 |
| LITTLE ELAM BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| STRATFORD HALL MUSUEM | $1,000 |
| BIG SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRY INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LOVELADY CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $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 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 +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 INC7× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +74%- RMRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $148k · revenue +152%
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION7× · 2017–2023 · $88k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- CACHRIST ANGLICAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RCROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM CENTENNIAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TBTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMSone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -60%
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 conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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…
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.
Community and economic development
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
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.
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…
See Disclosure Above.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc and 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.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MINISTRY FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds DAYMARK PASTORAL COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
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 · 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
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 Samuel E Upchurch Jr Charitable Found 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.
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