· Private foundation
The Featheringill Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRESTLINE SCHOOL PTO | $18,500 |
| BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| LINLY HEFLIN UNIT | $15,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S THEATER | $10,000 |
| INDEPENDENT PRESYBTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| VANDERBILT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $2,000 |
| RANDOLPH COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM | $1,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHRISTO REY SCHOOL | $500 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM | $500 |
| BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM | $500 |
| ALABAMA BALLET | $450 |
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 (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BCBIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +25%
- KCKIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM3× · 2019–2024 · $17k · revenue +4%
- TSTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC2× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FLFRESHWATER LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $46k · revenue +37%
- VFVENTURE FOR AMERICA INCone grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -59%
- CCCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
To support, promote, and encourage activities for the furtherance of justice and legal education, including but not limited to the education of primary and secondary students, as well as the general public to promote a greater…
Through all of its programs, richmond ballet strives to expand access to dance for the benefit of the entire community. at the heart of the organization's mission, to awaken, uplift, and unite human spirits, is the conviction that the…
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To promote quality built housing and home building opportunities and to enhance the professionalism and business performance of its members through networking opportunities, technical education, and training.
Match adult volunteers with at-risk children. To promote a friendship which will build confidence and self-esteem in order to promote improved decision-making and reduce problems into adulthood.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is Tune Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 46 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD UP ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bridgeways 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: 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
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 Featheringill 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.