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The Adele P Azar Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Adele P Azar Charitable 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$315kHealth$303kEducation$104kCivil Rights$34kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
UAB COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$12,500
OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT$7,500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA$7,500
JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL$7,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
CHILDREN FIRST ALLIANCE$4,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,500
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5k → 17%ST DOMINIC CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 12%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA: $8k → 16%ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 17%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT: $9k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5k → 17%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA: $8k → 16%ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 17%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5k → 17%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 17%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5k → 17%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA: $5k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $19k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $11k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $9k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $30k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 16%OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$749k · 14 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$749k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+56%

Still filing today

36%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    The Children's Hospital of Alabama
    7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +25%
  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +77%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SD
    ST DOMINIC CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MINISTRY FOR GIRLS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -53%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $143,500 · OtherST GEORGE MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCHOUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $129,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC CHURCHUAB COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $117,500 · OtherUAB COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $79,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYJOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $55,000 · OtherJOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOLST FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherCHILDREN FIRST ALLIANCE: $34,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $37,660 · Other+5 moreThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $40,000 · HealthThe Children's…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $33,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUND…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $24,000 · HealthVanderbilt Uni…COMMUNITY MINISTRY FOR GIRLS INC: $2,000 · ReligionSOUTHERN FEDERATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$661,660Health$97,000Religion$2,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $33,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN FEDERATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MINISTRY FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN FEDERATION FOUNDATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Adele P Azar Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adele P Azar Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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