· Private foundation
Sexton Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCESS THEATER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $15,688 |
| UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| DECATUR HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $8,000 |
| ONE VISION FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| COOKS MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $3,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $2,600 |
| ALABAMA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $1,500 |
| CARNEGIE VISUAL ARTS | $1,500 |
| RIVER CITY FINE ARTS | $1,000 |
| PARCA | $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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- AAALABAMA ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +109%
- CMCOOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE5× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +85%
NATIONS OF COACHES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UAUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +32%
- UUAHone grant, 2018 · $6k
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 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.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Provide facilities and support for the alabama high school of mathematics and science
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
Provide housing for the needy
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
To support the university of north alabama in its educational endeavors.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Decatur City Schools Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cook Museum of Natural Science. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 90 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 ALABAMA ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONS OF COACHES INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds DECATUR CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MORGAN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Protective Life Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Baker Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Haskins Curl Foundation · Valley Rubber Private Foundation · Alpha 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 Sexton Family Charitable 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.