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The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham

The mission of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM is to ignite passion for transformational change in our community.

$44M
Granted FY2024still arriving
440
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$4.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$82MEducation$59MHealth$25MHuman Services$22MReligion$19MArts & Culture$15MEnvironment$10MCommunity Improvement$9.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 440 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $435k
  • $10k–50k246 grants · $5.0M
  • $50k–250k101 grants · $9.5M
  • $250k+30 grants · $29M
$20,882
Median grant
26
States reached
$351M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVELADY CENTERFREEDOM RAIN$4,312,424
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$3,629,259
GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC$3,581,133
DOULOS PARTNERS$1,600,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$1,459,157
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ALABAMA$1,268,913
CHATHAM HALL$1,140,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$1,000,000
BLANKET FORT HOPE$986,200
DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION$763,489
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$740,801
BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE$699,701
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$668,973
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY$571,767
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $17.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $102k → 16%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME DBA EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $161k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $80k → 24%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $80k → 16%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 24%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $75k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - BIRMINGHAM: $102k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $95k → 7%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $76k → 18%KING'S HOME: $165k → 7%KING'S HOME: $65k → 7%BLANKET FORT HOPE: $76k → 7%LOVELADY CENTERFREEDOM RAIN: $4.3M → 16%LOVELADY CENTERFREEDOM RAIN: $66k → 16%BLANKET FORT HOPE: $986k → 7%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $3.6M → 16%KULTURE CITY: $92k → 16%UNLESS U: $61k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $252k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $76k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY INC: $228k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $135k → 16%URBAN MINISTRY: $76k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $62k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $53k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $112k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $111k → 16%MOTHERS' MILK BANK OF ALABAMA: $80k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $399k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $121k → 16%CHILDREN'S POLICY COOPERATIVE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $105k → 16%YWCA: $183k → 16%YMCA BIRMINGHAM: $116k → 16%YMCA BIRMINGHAM: $98k → 16%YWCA: $299k → 16%YWCA: $275k → 16%YWCA: $194k → 16%PROSPER BIRMINGHAM: $156k → 16%YWCA: $156k → 16%YWCA: $148k → 16%YWCA: $144k → 16%YMCA BIRMINGHAM: $116k → 16%YWCA: $111k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $100k → 16%PROSPER BIRMINGHAM: $58k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $56k → 16%PATHWAYS: $55k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191M · 609 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

609 repeat relationships: 336 still active in FY2024, 273 since wound down; 87 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

609
390

Total granted

$191M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +74%
  • FR
    FREEDOM RAIN INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +175%
  • GK
    GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • BS
    BENEDICTINE SISTERS SACRED HEART MONASTERY
    one grant, 2017 · $501k
  • BV
    Bronze Valley Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $290k · revenue +324%
  • SF
    SABRE FINANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $260k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
2
The University Foundation

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.

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3
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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4
Alabama Judicial Advocacy Inc

The mission of alabama judicial advocacy inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
5
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
6
Alabama Civil Justice Foundation

Provide grants and assistance to 501(c)(3) organizations assisting disadvantaged, disabled, and at-risk families and children.

Crime & Legal
7
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

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8
Alabama Policy Institute Inc

The primary mission of the alabama policy institute, inc. is to provide information to the people of alabama about primarily statewide legislative activity, and to promote and defend policies that preserve the principles of free markets,…

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9
Leadership Montgomery Inc

To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community

Public Benefit
10
Advance Memphis

To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.

Education
11
Breakthrough Birmingham

Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education
12
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oak Tree Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Naaa Warren Young Sr Scholastic Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

887 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 887 of the 1,122 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.

61
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
249
Early backer (in before they grew)
855/887
Grantees still filing
598/887
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Chicago Community Trust: $53,321,348 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community TrustUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $10,858,136 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INCThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $10,129,736 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Greater Chat…+15 more: $9,977,825 · Philanthropy+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $25,530,297 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $3,477,282 · Other+91 more: $56,095,511 · Other+91 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $2,078,250 · EducationCHATHAM HALL: $1,945,000 · EducationSamford University: $1,785,660 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,633,442 · EducationBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,112,500 · EducationTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $1,028,750 · EducationTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $969,960 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $878,750 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $811,026 · Education+22 more: $6,376,127 · EducationFREEDOM RAIN INC: $4,460,295 · Human ServicesGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $3,621,233 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,426,826 · Human ServicesBLANKET FORT HOPE: $1,070,200 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $692,097 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $665,459 · Human Services+16 more: $5,323,882 · Human ServicesFORGE SURVIVORSHIP CENTER: $2,425,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,942,745 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $1,576,998 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $1,549,359 · HealthTHE RED BARN: $576,685 · HealthLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $556,803 · HealthSMILE-A-MILE: $548,725 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $542,986 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $481,580 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $422,600 · Health+7 more: $1,922,818 · HealthPerforming Arts Center Inc: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $2,580,097 · Arts & CultureRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,657,359 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART FND TUA: $1,119,461 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $813,075 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $587,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Arts Center: $448,486 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,309,983 · Arts & CultureFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $2,288,671 · EnvironmentTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,644,339 · EnvironmentCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $1,442,225 · EnvironmentCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC: $231,553 · EnvironmentCAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC: $228,553 · EnvironmentBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC: $201,853 · Environment
Philanthropy$84,287,045Other$85,103,090Education$18,619,465Human Services$17,259,992Health$12,546,299Arts & Culture$12,515,461Environment$6,037,194

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $53,321,348 over 1y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $10,858,136 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $4,460,295 over 7y, 23% of budgetGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $3,621,233 over 3y, 24% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $3,477,282 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetPerforming Arts Center Inc: $3,000,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $2,580,097 over 8y, 30% of budgetST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC: $2,571,089 over 8y, 15% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC: $2,474,625 over 8y, 22% of budgetFORGE SURVIVORSHIP CENTER: $2,425,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $2,349,907 over 8y, 37% of budgetOASIS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $2,293,460 over 3y, 85% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $2,288,671 over 8y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $2,078,250 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCHATHAM HALL: $1,945,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,942,745 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,933,221 over 8y, 12% of budgetSamford University: $1,785,660 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,657,359 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,644,339 over 8y, 10% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,633,442 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDOULOS PARTNERS: $1,600,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $1,576,998 over 8y, 23% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $1,549,359 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetAlabama Small Business Development Initiative: $1,543,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $1,442,225 over 2y, 36% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,426,826 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $1,399,539 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $1,260,530 over 8y, 10% of budgetOFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1,252,297 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $1,198,893 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,153,036 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART FND TUA: $1,119,461 over 8y, 87% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,112,500 over 2y, 77% of budgetBLANKET FORT HOPE: $1,070,200 over 3y, 42% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $1,059,077 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $1,028,750 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $969,960 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $878,750 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM: $821,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $813,075 over 8y, 14% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $811,026 over 8y, 12% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $804,200 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $692,097 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $665,459 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $655,477 over 8y, 15% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC: $652,280 over 8y, 24% of budget
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 The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGE SURVIVORSHIP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds OASIS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Samford University ↗
  • Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOULOS PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Small Business Development Initiative ↗
  • Who funds CAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds OFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗

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.

The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Mike and Gillian Good…Hill Crest Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Alabama Power Foundat…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Robert R Meyer Founda…United Way of Central…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Community Partnership…Altecstyslinger Found…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL206.6× affinity224 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home