· Private foundation
Strain Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF AUTAUGACHI | $50,000 |
| ALABAMA SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE NET | $50,000 |
| ALABAMA ARISE | $30,000 |
| ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AN | $30,000 |
| STUDIO TWO THREE | $25,000 |
| UAB O'NEAL CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CAHABA RIVER COALITION | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOUSING INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF AND BLIN | $10,000 |
| MAGIC CITY ACCEPTANCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VOICES FOR ALABAMAS CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH2× · 2018–2024 · $280k · revenue +49%
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +131%
- ISINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL3× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMAone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AOALZHEIMER'S OF CENTRAL ALone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
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.
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.
Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 98 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ARISE ACTION ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds VOICES for Alabama's Children ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MIDDLE EAST ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED ↗
- Who funds Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO TWO THREE ↗
- Who funds VESTAVIA HILLS SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Strain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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