How much does The Hugh Kaul Foundation give?

The Hugh Kaul Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $2,622,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 64 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Hugh Kaul Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (12%).

Who are The Hugh Kaul Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Art Fund of Birmingham Inc ($1.5M), The Children's Hospital of Alabama ($800k), Ekvnv Yefolecvlke ($575k).

Does The Hugh Kaul Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hugh Kaul Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hugh Kaul Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Robert R Meyer Foundation.

Where is The Hugh Kaul Foundation based?

The Hugh Kaul Foundation is based in AL.

Foundation Dossiers

Alabama · Private foundation

The Hugh Kaul Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 68
Grants FY2024: 59
Organizations funded FY2023: 19%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $395,000
Organizations funded a year: 58 to 64; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $50M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Hugh Kaul Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $865k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	67	$2.6M	18%
FY2023	59	$2.5M	19%
FY2022	64	$2.0M	34%
FY2021	64	$3.6M	33%
FY2020	58	$2.6M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.0MArts & Culture$3.2MEnvironment$1.6MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$555kCommunity Improvement$430kHousing & Shelter$410kFood & Nutrition$345kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Art Fund of Birmingham Inc	$1,500,000	2	22%
The Children's Hospital of Alabama	$800,000	3	0%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke	$574,850	1	9%
Freshwater Land Trust	$500,000	4	12%
Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc	$425,000	4	1%
Birmingham Zoo Inc	$300,000	3	1%
Women's Foundation of Alabama	$250,000	2	3%
Teach for America Inc	$250,000	5	0%
Birmingham Landmarks Inc	$245,000	3	4%
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama	$220,000	2	0%

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All grantees of The Hugh Kaul Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Art Fund of Birmingham Inc	$1,500,000	2	22%
The Children's Hospital of Alabama	$800,000	3	0%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke	$574,850	1	9%
Freshwater Land Trust	$500,000	4	12%
Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc	$425,000	4	1%
Birmingham Zoo Inc	$300,000	3	1%
Women's Foundation of Alabama	$250,000	2	3%
Teach for America Inc	$250,000	5	0%
Birmingham Landmarks Inc	$245,000	3	4%
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama	$220,000	2	0%
Community on the Rise	$185,000	4	24%
The State of Alabama Ballet Inc	$150,000	5	2%
Woodlawn United Inc	$125,000	5	1%
The Birmingham Athletic Partnership	$115,000	5	10%
Railroad Park Foundation	$115,000	5	2%
Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama	$110,000	5	1%
Birmingham-Southern College	$110,000	2	0%
Opera Birmingham Inc	$105,000	5	4%
First Light Inc	$100,000	5	1%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$100,000	2	0%
Bessemer Redevelopment Corp	$100,000	1	13%
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Stair of Birmingham	$100,000	5	3%
McWane Science Center	$90,000	5	0%
Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema Inc	$85,000	4	2%
Birmingham Education Foundation	$75,000	3	3%
Rev Birmingham Inc	$75,000	3	1%
Girls Incorporated of Central Alabama	$75,000	5	1%
I3 Academy	$70,000	2	n/a
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama	$70,000	5	7%
Cahaba River Society Inc	$70,000	5	3%
The Wellhouse Inc	$65,000	3	1%
Pathways Inc	$60,000	5	2%
Venture for America Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Preschool Partners	$60,000	3	2%
Grace House Ministries Inc	$60,000	2	4%
Better Basics Inc	$52,000	5	1%
Oasis Counseling for Women and Children	$52,000	5	1%
One Place Metro Al Family Justice Center	$50,000	2	3%
Jones Valley Urban Farm	$50,000	2	1%
The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Freedom Rain Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Red Mountain Park Foundation	$50,000	1	10%
Create Birmingham	$50,000	5	2%
Highlands School	$50,000	1	14%
Vax 2 Stop Cancer	$50,000	5	10%
Mitchell's Place Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Smile-A-Mile	$50,000	5	1%
Coosa Riverkeeper Inc	$50,000	5	4%
The a Education Partnership	$45,000	4	0%
The Exceptional Foundation	$45,000	4	1%
Desert Island Supply Co	$45,000	4	7%
Collat Jewish Family Services of Birmingham	$40,000	4	1%
Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Youthserve Inc	$30,000	3	3%
Children's Aid Society of Alabama	$30,000	2	0%
Community Grief Support Service	$30,000	5	3%
Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc	$30,000	2	0%
Public Affairs Research Council of Al	$30,000	3	1%
Innovation Depot Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Alabama Holocaust Education Center	$25,000	1	2%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Birmingham Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Cahaba Riverkeeper Inc	$21,000	5	2%
Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
Your-Town Alabama Inc	$20,000	1	19%
Girls on the Run Birmingham	$20,000	2	11%
Wild Alabama Inc	$20,000	2	3%
Unless U Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Breakthrough Birmingham	$20,000	1	n/a
Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama	$20,000	1	0%
Camp McDowell	$20,000	2	n/a
Kid One Transport System Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Build Up	$15,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Alabama Inc	$10,000	1	1%
David Mathews Center for Civic Life	$10,000	1	2%
Grace House Ministries Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Alabama Association of Nonprofits	$10,000	1	4%
Vidal Access Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Big City Mountaineers	$10,000	1	1%
Junior League of Birmingham Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Aldridge Gardens	$10,000	2	2%
Literacy Council of Central Alabama	$10,000	2	1%
Momentum Alumnae Program Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Ryan Banks Academy	$10,000	1	1%
United Ability Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Innovate Birmingham	$10,000	1	1%
The Rotary Club of Birmingham Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Terrific New Theatre Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Weogufka Volunteer Fire Department	$7,500	1	n/a
Workshops Empowerment Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism Inc	$5,000	1	4%
Rotaract Club of Birmingham Foundation	$5,000	1	6%
Girlspring Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Vulcan Park Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hugh Kaul Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 89.

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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.

Susan Mott Webb Charitable TrustAL149× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Hugh Kaul Foundation

How much does The Hugh Kaul Foundation give?: The Hugh Kaul Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $2,622,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 64 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Hugh Kaul Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (12%).
Who are The Hugh Kaul Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Art Fund of Birmingham Inc ($1.5M), The Children's Hospital of Alabama ($800k), Ekvnv Yefolecvlke ($575k).
Does The Hugh Kaul Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hugh Kaul Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hugh Kaul Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Robert R Meyer Foundation.
Where is The Hugh Kaul Foundation based?: The Hugh Kaul Foundation is based in AL.