· Private foundation
The Blackmon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $9,292 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY | $3,500 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR - ALABAMA | $3,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UNITED ABILITY | $1,000 |
| BROTHER BRYAN MISSION OF BIRMINGHAM | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ALABAMA & MISSISSIPPI | $862 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $250 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $200 |
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HOHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +50%
- TMTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +27%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $20k
- FAFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +11%
- MMMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.
The mission of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation (The Foundation) is to support the activities and mission of the Hospital (CHA).
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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 make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 35 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 HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Blackmon 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.