· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VICTIM SERVICES OF CULLMAN | $1,000 |
| BROOKS PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 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 WINSTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Cullman Savings Bank Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cullman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cullman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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