· Private foundation
The Beard-Young Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RANDOLPH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| VILLAGE OF PROMISE | $35,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SHELBY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MANNA HOUSE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $10,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE VISITATION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WELLSTONE INC | $5,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $177k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +80%
- NCNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +128%
- VOVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- COCITY OF ORANGE BEACH ALone grant, 2022 · $200k
- TLTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HUNTSVILLE KEYS TO OPPORTUNITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Coordinate and deliver patient care in a group practice setting within the academic environment of the university of alabama at birmingham.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
To provide emergency medical services to the general public and contract ambulance services.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville and the most unlike its peers is The Huntsville Hospital Foundationinc. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 42 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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Vine Pastoral Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE-MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAP AND GOWN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR - HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds Christian Job Corps of Madison County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BACK COUNTRY TRAIL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEASH ON LIFE 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 · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Propst Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · Lanier Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Beard-Young Family 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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