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The Hugh Kaul Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$395k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$4.0MArts & Culture$3.2MEnvironment$1.6MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$555kCommunity Improvement$430kHousing & Shelter$410kFood & Nutrition$345kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $927k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $395k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$395,000
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA$200,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$200,000
JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$200,000
BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS$150,000
BIRMINGHAM ZOO$100,000
ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH$100,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$75,000
BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE$50,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA ALABAMA$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
REV BIRMINGHAM INC$30,000
RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $575k → 18%FREEDOM RAIN INC: $25k → 16%FREEDOM RAIN INC: $25k → 16%UNLESS U: $20k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $5k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $75k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $50k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $35k → 16%COMMUNITY ON THE RISE: $25k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $25k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $20k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $20k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $20k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $20k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $20k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $20k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 16%TERRIFIC NEW THEATRE: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 16%ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 77 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
35

Total granted

$12M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+8%

Still filing today

79%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • TA
    THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +246%
  • TC
    The Children's Hospital of Alabama
    3× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +22%
  • FL
    FRESHWATER LAND TRUST
    4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • EY
    EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE
    one grant, 2023 · $575k · revenue -8%
  • BR
    BESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
2
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
3
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment
4
Birmingham Promise Inc

Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships

Education
5
Uab Educational Foundation

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.

Education
6
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

7
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

8
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
9
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
10
A Best Practices Center

The alabama best practices center helps teachers and administrators develop the competence, commitment and courage to do whatever it takes to improve student learning.

Education
11
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
12
Alabama Values

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…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is David Mathews Center for Civic Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/96
the rest of the field
15%
626/4,067

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.

04the grantee network

93 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 125 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
57/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $1,500,000 · OtherTHE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INCUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham — $1,405,000 · OtherUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $770,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $500,000 · OtherALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM — $425,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAMJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $270,000 · OtherBirmingham Zoo Inc — $300,000 · Other+59 more — $2,747,000 · Other+59 moreEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE — $574,850 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEFO…COMMUNITY ON THE RISE — $185,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …FIRST LIGHT INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGH…PATHWAYS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $40,000 · Human Services+10 more — $185,000 · Human Services+10 moreRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $425,000 · Arts & CultureRED MOUNT…BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $245,000 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHA…THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE…OPERA BIRMINGHAM INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA BIR…MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $90,000 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SC…SIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureSIDEWALK …REV BIRMINGHAM INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureREV BIRMI…+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $800,000 · HealthThe Child…ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP OF ALABAMA — $70,000 · HealthALBERT SC…Oasis Counseling for Women and Children — $52,000 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $50,000 · HealthSMILE-A-MILE — $50,000 · HealthVAX 2 STOP CANCER — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthTeach for America Inc — $250,000 · EducationThe Birmingham Athletic Partnership — $115,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $100,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationI3 ACADEMY — $70,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $60,000 · EducationHighlands School — $50,000 · EducationTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $45,000 · EducationMagic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc — $30,000 · Education+4 more — $50,000 · EducationFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $500,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC — $50,000 · Environment+3 more — $41,000 · EnvironmentWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $110,000 · Community ImprovementBESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORP — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCahaba River Society Inc — $70,000 · Community ImprovementVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementYOUR-TOWN ALABAMA INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,917,000Human Services$1,194,850Arts & Culture$1,180,000Health$1,082,000Education$845,000Environment$741,000Community Improvement$500,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $1,500,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $800,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE — $574,850 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST — $500,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $425,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $250,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $245,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $220,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ON THE RISE — $185,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe Birmingham Athletic Partnership — $115,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA — $110,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC — $105,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORP — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $100,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP OF ALABAMA — $70,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $60,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $52,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC — $52,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHighlands School — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCREATE BIRMINGHAM — $50,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetVAX 2 STOP CANCER — $50,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC — $50,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budget
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 THE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama
  • Who funds EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE
  • Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST
  • Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC
  • Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ON THE RISE
  • Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC
  • Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Birmingham Athletic Partnership
  • Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE
  • Who funds OPERA BIRMINGHAM INC
  • Who funds BESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORP
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER
  • Who funds SIDEWALK FILM CENTER AND CINEMA INC
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
  • Who funds REV BIRMINGHAM INC
  • Who funds ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP OF ALABAMA

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.

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

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 Hugh Kaul 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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