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The Cullman Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLACE STATE FUTURE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CULLMAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| CITY OF CULLMAN PARK AND REC FUND | $30,000 |
| HOPE HORSES | $9,000 |
| CULLMAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| CULLMAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CULLMAN REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CULLMAN COUNTY BOSOM BUDDIES FOUNDA | $2,500 |
| WILD ALABAMA | $2,500 |
| WELLSTONE INC | $2,500 |
| CULLMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CULLMAN LAW ENFORCEMENT & COMM CENT | $1,000 |
| GARRISON GIVES HOPE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- HHHOPE HORSES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +101%
- CCCullman Christian School3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +35%
- WIWELLSTONE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- NANORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -50%
- RWRESTORING WOMEN OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue +321%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Social services
Hope For Women, LLC, will operate a Christian based, charitable treatment center for recovering female addicts in Walker County, Alabama that provides a place for shelter and recovery to women suffering from alcohol and drug addiction and…
The mission of creaa is to bring healing and restoration to individuals and families touched by addiction and addiction related mental illness. our goal is to provide services to improve the physical, mental, and spiritual health of those…
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 direct care medical service free of charge
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
The hospice of northwest alabama's primary purpose is to provide health care for terminally ill patients. this care primarily consists of counseling for the patients and their families and nursing care provided in the patient's home and/or…
Community health agency
To provide support services to the poor & vernable that offers them the opportunity for life transformation by providing counseling and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundry Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Les Dames of Cullman. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORING WOMEN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Cullman Christian School ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds Garrison Gives Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PILOT LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CULLMAN COUNTY BOSOM BUDDIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LES DAMES OF CULLMAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Victim Services of Cullman Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CULLMAN COUNTY 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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Cullman Savings Bank Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · 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 Cullman Foundation 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 or a single department — 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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