· Private foundation
The Hugh Kaul Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY20–24, $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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- TATHE ART FUND OF BIRMINGHAM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +246%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama3× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +22%
- FLFRESHWATER LAND TRUST4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- EYEKVNV YEFOLECVLKEone grant, 2023 · $575k · revenue -8%
- BRBESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
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 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.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.
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
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 promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
The alabama best practices center helps teachers and administrators develop the competence, commitment and courage to do whatever it takes to improve student learning.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
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…
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.