· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| Embrace Alabama Kids | $10,000 |
| LOVE INC OF TUSCALOOSA | $10,000 |
| MPower Ministries | $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chambers Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chambers Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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