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The Florence 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $15,000 |
| CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOBILE COUNTY METRO JAIL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| BAYSIDE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CAMP RAP-A-HOPE | $5,000 |
| ELIJAH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| WINGS OF LIFE | $5,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $5,000 |
| EDITH MURPHY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HISTORIC MOBILE LLC | $2,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE8× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +22%
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +59%
- DWDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE NURSINGone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MMMETRO MINISTRIES OF MOBILE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -72%
- SBSOUTH BALDWIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
The corporation owns and operates a christian school which provides primary education, including traditional courses of study, for students in grades pre-k through 12
Faith Academy is an AdvanceED accredited high school and provides an alternative method for students to earn an Accredited High School Diploma. Faith Academy's non-traditional method of instruction involves a highly disciplinary approach…
Educational institution, kindergarten through 12th grade.
The organization is a christian school with certified curriculum and state certified teachers, we partner with families to equip, challenge, and inspire students to impact the world for christ by living out biblical truth.
Jubilee is a private Preschool - 8th grade religious school that seeks to provide an excellent education from a Christ centered world view.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
Chattahoochee christian school is committed to be a school that partners with families to create a foundation of christian faith and character upon which to build academic excellence.
The Academy operates a private elementary and secondary school in Jacksonville, Florida, which teaches subjects usually taught in public schools. As a christian school, the Academy further offers students an opportunity to study the bible…
Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Edith Murphy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB ↗
- Who funds Providence Hospital ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDITH MURPHY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METRO MINISTRIES OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALDWIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 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: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Harry J and Aloyis L Sonneborn Charitable Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Williams Charitable Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Mapp Family 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 Florence 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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