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The Faulkner Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS | $1,500 |
| EAGLE FORUM OF ALABAMA | $1,500 |
| TRIUMPH OF HOPE | $1,500 |
| NSCDA | $1,488 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| 1036 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM | $475 |
| BIRMINGHAM ATHLETIC PARTNERSHIP | $250 |
| CASHIERS GLENVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE D | $250 |
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 (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 11 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BUBelmont University3× · 2020–2022 · $23k · revenue +53%
- KDKATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +24%
- BLBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC4× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2017 · $12k
- SMST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- OPO'NEAL PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
"as a witness to the love of god, revealed through jesus christ, the baptist health system is committed to ministries that enhance the health, dignity, and wholeness of those we serve, through integrity, compassion, advocacy,…
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
The ministry is a not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the state of alabama as a ministry whose purpose is to offer christ-centered counseling for children, youth, adults, and families.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
The mission of the organization is to assist men with the development of their spiritual lives; to empower men in and around the birmingham, alabama area through the word of god by developing a personal relationship with jesus christ; to…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Guild of Birmingham. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 125 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 Belmont University ↗
- Who funds KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds EAGLE FORUM OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAGUAR ATHLETIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WINNATASKA 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 · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger 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 Faulkner Family 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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