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The Community Foundation of South Alabama

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA seeks to build permanent endowments for the long range future of the region it serves and to draw from the strengths of the region's diverse population in designing and funding innovative programs which meet community needs.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Benefit$9.3MEducation$8.1MHuman Services$5.7MHealth$2.8MArts & Culture$1.9MEnvironment$1.7MReligion$1.1MAnimals$642kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $5,065,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,985,351 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $919,511 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.8M
$803,418
Median grant
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,797,450
HUMAN SERVICES FOCUS GROUP$954,062
Individual grant recipient$932,164
HEALTH FOCUS GROUP$803,418
ARTS & CULTURE FOCUS GROUP$316,129
Individual grant recipient$121,399
Individual grant recipient$93,946
Individual grant recipient$47,272
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 9 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
134

Total granted

$14M
$5.5M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.8M
  • HS
    HUMAN SERVICES FOCUS GROUP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M

Funded once

  • AF
    ALABAMA FOREST RESOURCES CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • RA
    RELIGIOUS AND WORSHIP FOCUS GROUP (SEE ATTCHED)
    one grant, 2019 · $328k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $187k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 20172024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 143 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $3,773,331 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUMAN SERVICES FOCUS GROUP — $3,258,397 · OtherHUMAN SERVICES FOCUS GROUPIndividual grant recipient — $2,659,160 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALABAMA FOREST RESOURCES CENTER INC — $1,509,360 · OtherALABAMA FOREST RESOURCES CENTER INCHEALTH FOCUS GROUP — $1,323,229 · OtherHEALTH FOCUS GROUPARTS & CULTURE FOCUS GROUP — $919,314 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $873,018 · Other+136 more — $5,053,499 · Other+136 more
Other$19,369,308

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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