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The Chambers Charitable Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUSCALOOSA COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL | $25,000 |
| BETHEL COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $12,500 |
| Freedom Farm Inc | $10,000 |
| Urban Ministry | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF TUSCALOOSA | $10,000 |
| COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LOVE INC OF TUSCALOOSA | $10,000 |
| MPower Ministries | $10,000 |
| WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| Embrace Alabama Kids | $10,000 |
| EAST TUSCALOOSA COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL | $7,500 |
| SAV A LIFE TUSCALOOSA | $7,500 |
| Mission Increase | $7,500 |
| CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BCBETHEL COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +24%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +196%
- CDCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…
Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Provide a home for children who have been abandoned and abused.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Bethel Community Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 BETHEL COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TUSCALOOSA COMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC ↗
- Who funds CARING DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds M-POWER Ministries ↗
- Who funds SAV-A-Life Of Tuscaloosa Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ACADEMY 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 · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Chambers Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — 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.
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