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The Hobbs 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 99 grants below total $809,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $879,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,000 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k79 grants · $250k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bruce and Emilie Reid Family Foundation | $203,000 |
| All Saints Episcopal Church | $35,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the River Region | $35,000 |
| Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation | $30,000 |
| Crimson Tide Foundation, University of Alabama | $25,000 |
| Valiant Cross Academy | $24,000 |
| University of the South | $22,000 |
| Linville Foundation | $22,000 |
| Brantwood Children's Home | $19,000 |
| University of Alabama | $17,000 |
| Montgomery Zoological Society Annual Giving | $16,000 |
| Samaritan Counseling Center | $16,000 |
| Charlotte Country Day School | $15,500 |
| Montgomery Academy Annual Giving | $15,000 |
| Renascence | $14,000 |
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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2023, 46 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC4× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +30%
- VCVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY4× · 2017–2023 · $87k · revenue +13%
- TSTHE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN4× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Montgomery Clean City Commissionone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HCHoly Cross Schoolone grant, 2017 · $4k
- ACAmerican Cancer Society - Montgomery, AL Chapterone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is Wards Foundation. 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 42 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 173 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Renascence Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOSPITAL 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: Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · We3 Fund
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.
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