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The Arlington Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$1.9MHuman Services$975kEducation$500kHousing & Shelter$355kEmployment$300kFood & Nutrition$200kYouth Development$75kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $650k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
BREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM$100,000
URBAN MINISTRY$100,000
THREE HOTS AND A COT$100,000
THE BIRMINGHAM PROMISE$100,000
THE DANNON PROJECT$100,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$50,000
HATCHING HOPE$50,000
COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$50,000
MCKEMIE PLACE INC$25,000
RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH$25,000
THE LOT PROJECT$25,000
THE JOEL FUND$25,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%THE JOEL FUND: $25k → 8%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%URBAN MINISTRY: $100k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $100k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $100k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $15k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $15k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Arlington Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Arlington Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 10 repeat orgs$691k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$3.8M
$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+19%

Still filing today

90%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BB
    BROTHER BRYAN MISSION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.9M · revenue -35% · 38% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k
  • DP
    DANNON PROJECT
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue -44%

Funded once

  • EL
    EAST LAKE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • 3H
    3 HOTS AND A COT
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMM FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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

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.

1
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
2
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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3
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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4
Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services
5
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
6
Birmingham Cross Cultural Connections

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…

Human Services
7
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
8
Hope Atlanta Inc

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.

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9
Kings Home Inc

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.

Human Services
10
United Community Ministries Inc

Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.

Human Services
11
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
12
Habitat for Humanity Williamson -Maury

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $1,911,899 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN MISSIONUrban Ministry Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesUrban Ministry Inc+5 more: $150,000 · Human Services+5 moreIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…3 HOTS AND A COT: $100,000 · Other3 HOTS AND A COTATLANTA COMM FOOD BANK: $50,000 · OtherATLANTA COMM FOOD …THE NEST: $50,000 · OtherTHE NESTTHE LOT PROJECT: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $16,012 · OtherBirmingham Promise Inc: $300,000 · EducationBirmingham P…BREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM: $200,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH…THREE HOTS & A COT: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHREE HOT…EAST LAKE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST LAKE…McKemie Place Inc: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterMcKemie P…HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD …BELOVED ASHEVILLE: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED A…DANNON PROJECT: $300,000 · Community ImprovementATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $50,000 · Food & NutritionHATCHING HOPE: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$2,361,899Other$741,012Education$500,000Housing & Shelter$355,000Community Improvement$300,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000

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 budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $1,911,899 over 3y, 38% of budgetDANNON PROJECT: $300,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetUrban Ministry Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetBirmingham Promise Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH BIRMINGHAM: $200,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE HOTS & A COT: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEAST LAKE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetFLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOT PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetRight Moves for Youth Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJOEL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetREDEEMING HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $1,012 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…Mike and Gillian Good…Protective Life Found…Publix Super Markets …Foundation for the Ca…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Arlington Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Arlington Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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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