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The Hargrove Foundation Inc
The mission of The Hargrove Foundation, Inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $103,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $335,629 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $232,629 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ransom Ministries | $15,000 |
| Hargives | $12,500 |
| Friends of LA Public Broadcast | $10,000 |
| University of Houston | $10,000 |
| University of Alabama | $10,000 |
| Drexel University | $10,000 |
| Louisiana State University | $10,000 |
| Cook Museum of Natural Science | $10,000 |
| Launch Therapy Center | $8,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lanier | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +129%
- LFLSU FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +103%
- RMRANSOM MINISTRIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMAone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CSCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INCone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -10%
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.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To provide common management of the existing and future healthcare delivery operations (the "joint healthcare operations") of the board of trustees of the university of alabama and the university of alabama health services foundation, p.c.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Hargives. 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 25 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 36 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANSOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Area Interfaith Conference ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of the Lake Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hargives ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds National Society of Black Engineers ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Azalea City Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Clotilda Descendants Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAYS OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICATOWN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Launch ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORE CENTER INC ↗
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 · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · Shell USA Company Foundation · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Hargrove Foundation Inc 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.
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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