· Private foundation
The Faulkner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| EAGLE FORUM OF ALABAMA | $1,500 |
| BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS | $1,500 |
| TRIUMPH OF HOPE | $1,500 |
| NSCDA | $1,488 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| 1036 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
"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.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 125 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 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 EAGLE FORUM OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH OF HOPE ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Faulkner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Faulkner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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