Alabama · Private foundation
The Featheringill 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.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Featheringill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $130k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $194k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $140k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $178k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $95k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $92k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $88k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Birmingham Children's Theatre Inc | $88,150 | 9 | 2% |
| Birmingham-Southern College | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Freshwater Land Trust | $46,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Linly Heflin Unit Inc | $32,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Venture for America Inc | $21,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Tune Up | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kiwanis Club of Birmingham | $17,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Sunflower Project | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,817 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Birmingham Children's Theatre Inc | $88,150 | 9 | 2% |
| Birmingham-Southern College | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Freshwater Land Trust | $46,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Linly Heflin Unit Inc | $32,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Venture for America Inc | $21,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Tune Up | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kiwanis Club of Birmingham | $17,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Sunflower Project | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,817 | 4 | 0% |
| Randolph College Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The State of Alabama Ballet Inc | $10,450 | 2 | 1% |
| Build Up | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Junior League of Birmingham Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Stair of Birmingham | $8,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ballet Guild of Birmingham | $2,300 | 3 | 2% |
| Pathways Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Aid Society of Alabama | $1,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Bridgeways Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reed Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($615k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Featheringill Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Hackney Foundation
How this is measured
About The Featheringill Foundation
- How much does The Featheringill Foundation give?
- The Featheringill Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $130,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Featheringill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (32%), Religion (10%).
- Who are The Featheringill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vanderbilt University ($100k), Birmingham Children's Theatre Inc ($88k), Birmingham-Southern College ($50k).
- Does The Featheringill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Featheringill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Featheringill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Robert R Meyer Foundation, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Featheringill Foundation based?
- The Featheringill Foundation is based in AL.
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