· Private foundation
Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sarah Gayle Gibbs Memorial Foundation | $5,300 |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church | $3,600 |
| Downtown Rescue Mission | $1,500 |
| Rose of Sharon Soup Kitchen & Thrift Store | $1,500 |
| Princess Theatre Center for the Performing Arts | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Madison County | $1,000 |
| Parkinson's Dynamics | $1,000 |
| Broadway Theater League of Huntsville | $500 |
| Monrovia Volunteer Fire Rescue | $500 |
| Providence Baptist Church | $100 |
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 (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SGSARAH GAYLE GIBBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +16%
- DRDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +17%
- BTBROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF HUNTSVILLE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ASAthens State University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +118%
- NANE Alabama Fellowship of Christianone grant, 2019 · $500
- DDDUO DOGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +83%
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.
Social services
The organization provides advocacy services for school-aged children and program services for infants, toddlers and adults with disabilities.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.
The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…
Improving the quality of life for parkinson patients, their caregivers, and families throughout the state of alabama.
The Mission of Theatre Huntsville is connecting you to excellent and entertaining storytelling and creative artistic opportunities. Our Vision is to enrich our community through the shared experience of live performing arts as North…
The hospice of northwest alabama's primary purpose is to provide health care for terminally ill patients. this care primarily consists of counseling for the patients and their families and nursing care provided in the patient's home and/or…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To provide exceptional services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people with disabilities can live, work and play in our communities.
Assists adults with developmental disabilities through vocational and residential programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Huntsville Dream Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 35. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 32% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 SARAH GAYLE GIBBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF HUNTSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Rose of Sharon Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKINSONS DYNAMICS ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING DECATUR ↗
- Who funds Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROVIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP FARMS ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of the River Valley ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCESS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Athens State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Alpha Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Give Back Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012 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.
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