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Snook Foundation at a glance

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Snook Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$878k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$410k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.1MHuman Services$896kHealth$640kRecreation & Sports$629kPublic Safety & Disaster$406kHousing & Shelter$388kYouth Development$235kFood & Nutrition$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
  • $250k+1 grant · $410k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SNOOK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$410,000
SNOOK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$77,639
CAREHOUSE$40,034
SOUTH BALDWIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$37,500
PRODISEE PANTRY$35,000
GOOD COUNSEL MARY'S SHELTER GC$32,000
JENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION$27,530
LILLIAN VOLUNTGEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES$25,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
NORTH BALDWIN ANIMAL SHELTER$20,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY$15,000
UNDER HIS WINGS$15,000
SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL$10,000
THE LIGHTHOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $463k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COVENANT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%THE LEE FOUNDATION: $35k → 17%COVENANT HOSPICE: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOSPICE: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOSPICE: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOSPICE: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $25k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $20k → 12%MARY'S SHELTER: $20k → 12%THE LEE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%DEVELOPING FUTURES FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $30k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS INC: $25k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $25k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $25k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $25k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS INC: $25k → 12%UNDER HIS WINGS: $15k → 12%THE LEE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $15k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 55 repeat orgs$905k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
65

Total granted

$9.9M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+4%

Still filing today

45%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SC
    Snook Christian Academy
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +79% · 29% of their budget
  • FU
    FAULKNER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
  • CH
    CARE HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • UM
    USA MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE KILBORN CLINIC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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.

1
Baldwin Family Violence Shelter

To operate and maintain a protective shelter for battered and/or abused women, men, and children or those affected by family violence.

Human Services
2
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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3
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
4
South Baldwin County Healthcare Authority

None

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5
Northwest Al Mental Health Center

Community mental health center

Health
6
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
7
Christian Mission Centers Inc

The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.

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8
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
9
Family Services of North Alabama

Strengthens families and serve sexual assault victims

Human Services
10
Hope for All Gulf Coast

It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.

Food & Nutrition
11
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
12
Baldwin Realtors Foundation Inc

Baldwin realtors foundation, inc. (the foundation) is a nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of helping people in the baldwin county, alabama community who have been affected by natural disasters, illness, or other unfortunate…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant Hospice Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Central Baldwin Sunset Rotary Club. 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

46 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. 46 of the 126 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Snook Christian Academy: $3,722,639 · EducationSnook Christian AcademyFAULKNER UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 · EducationFAULKNER UNIVERSITYSOUTH BALDWIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $937,500 · EducationSOUTH BALDWIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION+4 more: $185,039 · EducationCARE HOUSE INC: $335,246 · OtherCARE HOUSE INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $175,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYEcumenical Ministries Inc: $165,000 · OtherEcumenical Ministries IncST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOLGOOD COUNSEL MARY'S SHELTER GC: $125,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $100,000 · OtherJENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOU: $96,000 · OtherELBERTA HIGH SCHOOL (ATHLETICS): $93,725 · Other+83 more: $1,281,173 · Other+83 moreUnder His Wings Inc: $170,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOSPICE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMarys Shelter: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $28,420 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $130,000 · HealthALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC: $110,000 · HealthJENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION: $63,483 · HealthHome of Grace For Women Inc: $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB: $23,000 · Health+6 more: $43,574 · HealthProdisee Pantry Inc: $267,500 · Public Safety & DisasterLILLIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COASTAL ALABAMA INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE SEA GLASS INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$6,845,178Other$2,521,644Human Services$468,420Health$395,057Public Safety & Disaster$292,500Recreation & Sports$225,500Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSnook Christian Academy: $3,722,639 over 8y, 29% of budgetFAULKNER UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $937,500 over 7y, 73% of budgetCARE HOUSE INC: $335,246 over 7y, 11% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $267,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COASTAL ALABAMA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetUnder His Wings Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetEcumenical Ministries Inc: $165,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LEE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 98% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC: $110,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $100,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetBALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $69,539 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetJENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION: $63,483 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $35,700 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLILLIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHome of Grace For Women Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE HAVEN: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB: $23,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOSPICE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarys Shelter: $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetNORTH BALDWIN ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJOHN MCCLURE SNOOK YOUTH CLUB OF FOLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $19,650 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,920 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBALDWIN COUNTY DRUG COURT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCOVENANT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetONE MORE MOMENT INC: $8,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CENTER INC: $5,074 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEA GLASS INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEVELOPING FUTURES FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 23% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Snook Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH BALDWIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COASTAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds Under His Wings Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ecumenical Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION ↗
  • Who funds JENNIFER CLAIRE MOORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LILLIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY ↗

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.

Baldwin County Electr…Mapp Family FoundationThe Daniel Foundation…Impact 100 Baldwin Co…Malbis Memorial Found…Rc Craft Family Found…Cox Family Charitable…J L Bedsole Foundatio…Alabama Power Foundat…Crampton Trust #12550…Joe and Mary Ann Crom…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…
Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation IncAL45.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc · Mapp Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Impact 100 Baldwin County · Malbis Memorial Foundation · Rc Craft Family Foundation · Cox Family Charitable Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze 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 Snook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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