· Private foundation
The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $250,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $250,000 |
| ORDER OF ST JOHN | $75,000 |
| AZALEA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PERES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $50,000 |
| FUSE PROJECT | $40,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $36,000 |
| MCGILL TOOLEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| MOBILE BAYKEEPER | $30,000 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE WORLD | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN | $25,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MT VERNON LADIES ASSOC | $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 (FY20–25, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
University of Chicago6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +52%- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +2%
- PIPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM6× · 2020–2025 · $407k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- ASALABAMA SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SSST STEPHENS HISTORICAL COMMISSIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SOSOCIETY OF 1868 INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -40%
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.
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.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Community and economic development
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
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,…
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the water works industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infirmary Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairhope Film Festival Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 121 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PERES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds RED DOOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Arts Council 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 · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc
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 Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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