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The Arlington 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $650k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| THE DANNON PROJECT | $100,000 |
| THREE HOTS AND A COT | $100,000 |
| THE BIRMINGHAM PROMISE | $100,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM | $100,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| HATCHING HOPE | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| THE JOEL FUND | $25,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE INC | $25,000 |
| RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH | $25,000 |
| THE LOT PROJECT | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $430k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Arlington Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- BPBirmingham Promise Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +97%
- MPMcKemie Place Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ELEAST LAKE INITIATIVEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +16%
- 3H3 HOTS AND A COTone grant, 2024 · $100k
- ACATLANTA COMM FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
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 serve people, build community, pursue justice.
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
The Mission of Birmingham Cross Cultural Connections is to alleviate the burdens on immigrant and refugee families entering the city of Birmingham through resources training assistance opportunities and relationships that encourage…
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Kings Home seeks to serve and glorify God by providing Christ-centered homes and services in which compassion and competence combine to meet the needs of women, children and families escaping domestic violence and other abusive conditions.
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Redeeming Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds DANNON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THREE HOTS & A COT ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HATCHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Right Moves for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds JOEL FUND ↗
- Who funds REDEEMING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA 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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Arlington Foundation 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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