· Private foundation
The Daniel Foundation of Alabama
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k240 grants · $666k
- $10k–50k248 grants · $4.7M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $112,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $100,000 |
| LOVELADY CENTER | $100,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALABAMA | $75,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALABAMA | $75,000 |
| ALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC- OPELIKA | $75,000 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER | $75,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $75,000 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA-TUSCALOOSA | $75,000 |
| PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES | $75,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $75,000 |
| MOBILE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
521 repeat relationships — 327 still active in FY2024, 194 since wound down; 115 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- ASALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $934k · revenue +40%
- ASALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2020–2024 · $407k · revenue +73%
- BZBirmingham Zoo Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $259k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- VGVARIOUS GRANTS SCHEDULE PROVIDED UPON REQUESTone grant, 2019 · $7.1M
- UDUAB DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $125k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2020 · $104k
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.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Social services
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
To build awareness about disparities for the underserved and underrepresented that exist across Alabama and the nation through advocacy and education.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Possible and the most unlike its peers is Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
650 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. 650 of the 929 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University Charter School ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND MONTGOMERY ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES for Alabama's Children ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Civil Justice 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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama 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.