Alabama · Private foundation
Southern Imagination Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $388k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Southern Imagination Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $63k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $69k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $75k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $81k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $46k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $71k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $127k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $114k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $118,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pacific Science Center Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cathedral Church of the Advent | $55,068 | 3 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $43,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Family Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Media Reform Sc LLC | $22,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Rock n Roll Rescue | $17,500 | 2 | 21% |
| Charleston Waterkeeper | $12,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Woodlawn United Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Ministry Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Southern Imagination Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Joanna Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation
How this is measured
About Southern Imagination Foundation
- How much does Southern Imagination Foundation give?
- Southern Imagination Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $62,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Southern Imagination Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Science & Tech (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Southern Imagination Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($118k), Pacific Science Center Foundation ($75k), Cathedral Church of the Advent ($55k).
- Does Southern Imagination Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Southern Imagination 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 Southern Imagination Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joanna Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Southern Imagination Foundation based?
- Southern Imagination Foundation is based in AL.
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