· Private foundation
The Bolling Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HURRICANE BAPTISH CHURCH | $3,250 |
| SABAN CENTER | $3,250 |
| STUDIO BY THE TRACKS | $3,250 |
| CAMP SEALE HARRIS | $3,250 |
| HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA | $2,000 |
| THE HAVEN | $1,300 |
| KEEP PENSACOLA BEAUTIFUL | $1,000 |
| MOBILE BAYKEEPER | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $750 |
| FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY | $750 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $600 |
| FAIRHOPE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $200 |
| NYU SCHOOL OF LAW | $200 |
| BAYSIDE ACADEMY | $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 (FY24–24, $2k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +13%
- NKNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $24k · revenue +75%
- SBSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC4× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- YHYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -14%
- SJST JUDEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CTCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $7k
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 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 support the university of north alabama in its educational endeavors.
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.
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,…
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
Operation of a public charter school in Livingston, AL.
Provide facilities and support for the alabama high school of mathematics and science
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
To ensure success for our children in the global community, the mission of sullins academy is to provide a positive educational environment, fostering academic excellence while maintaining a commitment to the core values of integrity,…
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTS' N AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Keep Pensacola Beautiful Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIRHOPE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
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: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Doy & Margaret McCall Family Foundation · Ernest G & Cecil B Williams Foundation · Malbis Memorial Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bolling Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bolling Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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