· Private foundation
The Gratitude Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPACE ONE ELEVEN | $30,000 |
| CAHABA RIVER COALITION | $30,000 |
| CAMP MCDOWELL | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| COOSA RIVERKEEPER | $25,000 |
| ALABAMA ARISE | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $20,000 |
| VOICES FOR ALABAMA'S CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| A PLUS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $15,000 |
| PRESCHOOL PARTNERS | $15,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMA | $15,000 |
| PUBLIC RADIO WBHM 903 FM | $10,000 |
| STATES NEWSROOM | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA ASSOCIATION FOR NONPROFITS | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSPACE ONE ELEVEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +42%
- CRCahaba River Society Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +66%
- FLFRESHWATER LAND TRUST7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -1%
- AEA EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
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.
A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…
To advocate for and provide educational opportunitiesin the arts
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
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.
The alabama best practices center helps teachers and administrators develop the competence, commitment and courage to do whatever it takes to improve student learning.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SPACE ONE ELEVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ARISE ACTION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ARISE ↗
- Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BLACK BELT TREASURES ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds VOICES for Alabama's Children ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BIRMINGHAM ARTS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds BLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds WILD ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds Impact America ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gratitude Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gratitude Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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