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The Hackney 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION | $7,875 |
| YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $6,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,200 |
| CANTERBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,100 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATIONS | $4,333 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $4,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| PORTRAITS OF HOPE | $1,500 |
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $1,350 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 10 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +21%
Samford University6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +59%- UAUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MMMARION MILITARY INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +112%
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.
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.
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.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
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.
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…
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
To promote the value of using a realtor and to enhance our members' opportunities to serve customers in a professional, ethical and profitable manner within an environment that fosters cooperation among the membership.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anc Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 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. 103 of the 192 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Outreach United Appeal Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Rotaract Club of Birmingham Inc ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable 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 Hackney 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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