· Private foundation
The Blackmon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| BROTHER BRYAN MISSION OF BIRMINGHAM | $1,000 |
| UNITED ABILITY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ALABAMA & MISSISSIPPI | $862 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $250 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blackmon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blackmon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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