· Private foundation
Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $625k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $150,000 |
| FREEDOM RAIN INC DBA LOVELADY CENTER | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS | $20,000 |
| RENEW BIRMINGHAM | $20,000 |
| GLENWOOD INC | $20,000 |
| WOODLAWN UNITED | $15,000 |
| A G GASTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| ALYS ROBINSON STEPHENS ART CENTER | $15,000 |
| 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| AFFORDABLE COUNSELING THERAPY | $10,000 |
| SIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA | $10,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH INC | $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 (FY19–25, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
131 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 12 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC4× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +38%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +65%
- GIGLENWOOD INC6× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- RMRED MOUNTAIN CUT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -24%
- SMSOUTHERN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FDN INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -12%
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.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
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.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
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.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
How this is measured
167 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. 167 of the 227 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED 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 · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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