Alabama · Private foundation
The Gratitude Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $283k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Gratitude 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 | 16 | $283k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $266k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $296k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $302k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $248k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $250k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $265k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $256k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space One Eleven Inc | $220,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Cahaba River Society Inc | $125,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Freshwater Land Trust | $117,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Camp McDowell | $115,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Alabama Arise Action | $100,000 | 4 | 40% |
| Women's Foundation of Alabama | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Alabama Arise | $87,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The a Education Partnership | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Black Belt Treasures | $80,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gratitude Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Stephens Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Gratitude Foundation
- How much does The Gratitude Foundation give?
- The Gratitude Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $283,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gratitude Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (19%), Environment (17%).
- Who are The Gratitude Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Space One Eleven Inc ($220k), Cahaba River Society Inc ($125k), Freshwater Land Trust ($118k).
- Does The Gratitude Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gratitude Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gratitude Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation.
- Where is The Gratitude Foundation based?
- The Gratitude Foundation is based in AL.
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