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The Forman Foundation at a glance

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The Forman 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.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$85kReligion$50kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$15kEducation$11kHealth$9kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$479k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Birmingham Botanical Gardens$10,000
Independent Presbyterian Church$5,660
St Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church$4,660
Rotary Club Foundation$2,500
YWCA$1,500
Birmingham Museum of Art$1,000
Friends of the Children - Texas$1,000
Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation$660
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Friends of the Children - Texas: $1k → 10%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $4k → 14%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $4k → 14%Jubilee Park & Community Center: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CO
WV
VA
NC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 19 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$205k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+7%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JP
    JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +154%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +351%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SM
    St Michaels & All Angels Church
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • CJ
    Camp John Marc
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CO
    Church of the Advent
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
4
The Children's Hospital of 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…

Health
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
Breakthrough Birmingham

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.

Education
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Crestwood Day School Inc

Crestwood day school is a private elementary (k-6th) grade school in alabama.

Education
10
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
11
Texas a&M Foundation

The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.

Education
12
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samford University; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Birmingham Botanical Gardens: $80,000 · OtherBirmingham Botanical GardensIndependent Presbyterian Church: $28,728 · OtherIndependent Presbyterian ChurchST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $17,680 · OtherST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCHRotary Club Foundation: $14,240 · OtherRotary Club FoundationYWCA: $14,049 · OtherYWCABirmingham Museum of Art: $7,500 · Other+9 more: $13,566 · Other+9 moreJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $10,334 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TEXAS: $1,000 · Human ServicesMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $3,979 · EducationTHE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,050 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $1,903 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $1,250 · EducationBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $250 · EducationCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $8,106 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $606 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,866 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCahaba River Society Inc: $3,300 · Community ImprovementGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$175,763Human Services$11,334Education$10,432Health$8,912Recreation & Sports$4,866Philanthropy$4,000Community Improvement$3,300Public Safety & Disaster$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $10,334 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $8,106 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,866 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $3,979 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc: $3,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,903 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $606 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSamford University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Samford University ↗

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.

Dunn FoundationThe Hackney FoundationDunn-French FoundationProtective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Dunn FoundationAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dunn Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Forman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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