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The Goodrich Foundation at a glance

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The Goodrich 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.

$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$566kEducation$118kCommunity Improvement$80kHealth$64kArts & Culture$60kAnimals$38kHousing & Shelter$30kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$10,000
RENAISSANCE SCHOLARSHIPS INC$1,000
PROJECT HORSESHOE FARM$1,000
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $500 → 16%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$491k · 23 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
16

Total granted

$491k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+22%

Still filing today

48%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% 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
EducationPhilanthropyHealthReligionFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +74%
  • IS
    INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +231%
  • MM
    MAGIC MOMENTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • UD
    UAB DEPARTMENT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • LT
    LYRIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +134%
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
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
2
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
3
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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4
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

—
5
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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6
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
7
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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8
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment
9
Birmingham Museum of Art Endowment Trust

Purpose is to use income produced by the trust to support the operations of bma at the direction of the directors.

Arts & Culture
10
Aids Alabama Inc

Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
11
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
12
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birmingham Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

22 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. 22 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $483,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC+2 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYUAB O' NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $21,500 · OtherUAB O' NEAL COMPREHENSIVE…UAB DEPARTMENT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY: $20,000 · OtherUAB DEPARTMENT OF OTOLARY…BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $18,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ARTUAB PUBLIC POLICY INITIATIVE: $16,200 · OtherUAB PUBLIC POLICY INITIAT…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…DIXIE PLANTATION RESEARCH LLC: $15,000 · OtherDIXIE PLANTATION RESEARCH…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $14,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICALYRIC THEATRE: $12,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALABAMA: $11,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $10,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $48,300 · Other+13 moreINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $53,000 · EducationINDIAN SPRI…LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC: $21,000 · EducationLINLY HEFLI…Teach for America Inc: $19,000 · EducationTeach for A…THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $11,000 · EducationTHE A EDUCA…RENAISSANCE SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementBirmingham Zoo Inc: $38,000 · AnimalsCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMAGIC MOMENTS: $14,000 · HealthSOUTH HIGHLAND OUTREACH PROJECT: $4,000 · Health
Philanthropy$567,000Other$241,000Education$109,000Community Improvement$80,000Animals$38,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$18,000

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $483,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $80,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $53,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $38,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $14,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRENAISSANCE SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HORSESHOE FARM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $500 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
  • Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
  • Who funds Community Kitchens of Birmingham ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH HIGHLAND OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds RENAISSANCE SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HORSESHOE FARM ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Mike and Gillian Good…The Daniel Foundation…Robert R Meyer Founda…Altecstyslinger Found…The Community Foundat…Jones Family FundDunn-French FoundationHill Crest Foundation…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…The Hackney Foundation
Protective Life FoundationAL34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Jones Family Fund · Dunn-French Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Hackney Foundation

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 Goodrich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodrich 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
    6report 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 41 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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