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The Daniel Foundation of Alabama at a glance

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The Daniel Foundation of Alabama

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
521
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$7.6MArts & Culture$6.4MHealth$5.1MHuman Services$4.4MYouth Development$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 521 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k240 grants · $666k
  • $10k–50k248 grants · $4.7M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.2M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$114M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL$112,500
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA$100,000
LOVELADY CENTER$100,000
MOBILE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
ALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC- OPELIKA$75,000
TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES$75,000
JIMMIE HALE MISSION$75,000
MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER$75,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALABAMA$75,000
BIRMINGHAM ZOO$75,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALABAMA$75,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA-TUSCALOOSA$75,000
TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEARTS OF CLEBURNE: $20k → 16%LOVELADY CENTER: $100k → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $20k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL INC: $20k → 13%KING'S HOME: $30k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL INC: $20k → 13%LOVELADY CENTER: $25k → 16%KING'S HOME: $25k → 7%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $30k → 18%KING'S HOME: $25k → 7%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $20k → 11%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 18%TROY RESILIENCE PROJECT: $25k → 27%YMCA OF CHILTON COUNTY: $30k → 16%KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE: $25k → 17%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $45k → 18%ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $45k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 18%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $50k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $50k → 16%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 18%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 18%BLANKET FORT HOPE: $35k → 7%BLANKET FORT HOPE: $25k → 7%VINEYARD FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $25k → 7%FIRST STOP INC: $50k → 11%US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%THE CARE CENTER: $40k → 11%THE CARE CENTER: $40k → 11%THE CARE CENTER: $40k → 11%URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%HEART GALLERY ALABAMA: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $23k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $23k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $40k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $40k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $40k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $35k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $35k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $25k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $25k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $25k → 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

MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 521 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

521
286

Total granted

$30M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AS
    ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $934k · revenue +40%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $407k · revenue +73%
  • BZ
    Birmingham Zoo Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $259k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • VG
    VARIOUS GRANTS SCHEDULE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2019 · $7.1M
  • UD
    UAB DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2020 · $104k
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
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
2
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
3
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
4
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
5
Walker County Community Agency Inc

The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al

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6
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
7
Alabama Impact Alliance

To build awareness about disparities for the underserved and underrepresented that exist across Alabama and the nation through advocacy and education.

Community Improvement
8
Wings Across Alabama

To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.

Education
9
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Central Alabama Works

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.

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11
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
12
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Possible; 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.
04the grantee network

651 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. 651 of the 929 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
169
Early backer (in before they grew)
639/651
Grantees still filing
417/651
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS GRANTS SCHEDULE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST: $7,050,080 · OtherVARIOUS GRANTS SCHEDULE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST+80 more: $8,579,162 · Other+80 moreALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $933,500 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SYMPHON…ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $407,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHAKESP…RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $345,750 · Arts & CultureRED MOUNTAIN TH…BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $252,000 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM LAND…MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $186,500 · Arts & CultureSHELBY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $164,250 · Arts & CultureWIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES for Alabama's Children: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $141,200 · Arts & CultureMobile Symphony Inc: $141,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $1,318,250 · Arts & Culture+17 moreTeach for America Inc: $264,000 · EducationTeach for Ameri…TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $258,000 · EducationTROY UNIVERSITY…University Charter School: $255,000 · EducationUniversity Char…PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $225,000 · EducationPHALEN LEADERSH…NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA: $200,000 · EducationJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $155,000 · EducationTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $145,000 · EducationEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA: $140,000 · EducationSamford University: $137,000 · Education+23 more: $2,107,110 · Education+23 moreTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $193,500 · Human ServicesKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Human ServicesThe CARE Center: $137,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $134,250 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $120,750 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesSMALL MAGIC: $100,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $97,000 · Human ServicesFirst Stop Inc: $95,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS: $90,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC: $89,000 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $86,500 · Human ServicesM-POWER Ministries: $81,000 · Human ServicesKings Home Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesFUSE PROJECT: $79,500 · Human Services+11 more: $684,000 · Human ServicesGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $210,300 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $180,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $175,250 · HealthOasis Counseling for Women and Children: $166,500 · HealthGood Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman Inc: $110,000 · HealthVictory Health Partners Inc: $106,500 · HealthFORGE SURVIVORSHIP CENTER: $85,000 · HealthTHE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $83,000 · HealthHEALS INC: $80,000 · HealthTRINITY COUNSELING INC: $80,000 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $78,000 · HealthOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $76,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $73,500 · Health+4 more: $233,500 · HealthWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $199,000 · PhilanthropyCREATE BIRMINGHAM: $180,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC: $115,000 · PhilanthropyPRIDE OF ATMORE INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $76,095 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $62,500 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $62,370 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $61,156 · PhilanthropyDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $175,200 · Housing & ShelterLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $139,000 · Housing & ShelterDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $117,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $96,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $95,750 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT HORSESHOE FARM: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterBETHESDA HOUSE INC: $55,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$15,629,242Arts & Culture$4,189,450Education$4,086,110Human Services$2,337,500Health$1,962,550Philanthropy$856,121Housing & Shelter$763,450

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $933,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $410,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $407,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $345,750 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetALABAMA CASA NETWORK INC: $325,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $264,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $259,462 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $258,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity Charter School: $255,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $252,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $210,300 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA: $200,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $199,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $193,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $186,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $180,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCREATE BIRMINGHAM: $180,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $175,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $175,200 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMON GROUND MONTGOMERY: $172,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children: $166,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $164,250 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC: $150,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetVOICES for Alabama's Children: $150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $145,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $142,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $141,200 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMobile Symphony Inc: $141,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $140,950 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA: $140,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $139,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSamford University: $137,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe CARE Center: $137,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHUNTSVILLE INNER CITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $135,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $135,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $134,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE ADMISSIONS MADE POSSIBLE: $127,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL: $125,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $125,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $123,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $122,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $121,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $120,750 over 3y, 0.6% 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 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 PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Alabama Power Foundat…Protective Life Found…Mike and Gillian Good…Hill Crest Foundation…The Community Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Robert R Meyer Founda…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…Altecstyslinger Found…Alabama Civil Justice…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL225.5× affinity291 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel Foundation of Alabama. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    90report 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 929 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-PF 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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