Does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Hearin - Chandler Foundation, Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee.

The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee

The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee at a glance

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The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee

Q: What does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Science & Tech (19%), Religion (15%).

Q: Who are The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($1.5M), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($1.5M), Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($436k).

Q: Does The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.0MScience & Tech$1.6MReligion$1.2MArts & Culture$811kInternational$613kHealth$600kHuman Services$449kEnvironment$220kOther$0

02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $122k
$10k–50k25 grants · $507k
$50k–250k4 grants · $230k
$250k+2 grants · $500k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN	$25,000
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL	$25,000
CHILDREN OF THE WORLD	$25,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.5M · 70 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+25%

Still filing today

57%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

University of Chicago
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +52%
AC
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +135%
PI
PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
6× · 2020–2025 · $407k · revenue +48%

Funded once

AS
ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE
one grant, 2022 · $50k
SS
ST STEPHENS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
one grant, 2020 · $25k
SO
SOCIETY OF 1868 INC
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -40%

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.

Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit

Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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The University Foundation

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.

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Uab Educational Foundation

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.

Education

Museum of American Finance

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…

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Alabama a&M University Foundation

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,…

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Coastal Alabama Partnership

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…

Public Safety & Disaster

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

American Water Works Association Alabama-Mississippi Section

Advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the water works industry.

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infirmary Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 121 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/66

Grantees still filing

45/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,043,748International$1,877,500Education$1,598,000Arts & Culture$593,250Health$497,000Human Services$492,100Philanthropy$195,600

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

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 of AlabamaAL41.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

15report 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.

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