Alabama · Private foundation
Strain Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $395k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Strain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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 | 28 | $400k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $687k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $308k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $187k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $500k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $335k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $200k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $295k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of the South | $280,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity Inc | $135,000 | 2 | 54% |
| Women's Foundation of Alabama | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Alabama Arise Action | $75,000 | 3 | 48% |
| West Alabama Food Bank Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indian Springs School | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Methodist Children's Home | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| VOICES for Alabama's Children | $47,500 | 7 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Strain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Stephens Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Gratitude Foundation · Better Place Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation
How this is measured
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About Strain Foundation
- How much does Strain Foundation give?
- Strain Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $395,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Strain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (22%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Education (12%).
- Who are Strain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of the South ($280k), Habitat for Humanity Inc ($135k), Women's Foundation of Alabama ($75k).
- Does Strain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Strain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Strain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Strain Foundation based?
- Strain Foundation is based in AL.
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