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The Hyman Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $1,550 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE | $1,500 |
| NORTH BALDWIN ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,250 |
| PENELOPE HOUSE | $1,200 |
| MOBILE BAYKEEPERS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MULHERIN HOME | $1,000 |
| VILLAGE OF SPRINGHILL | $1,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- FTFeeding the Gulf Coast2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +11%
- NBNORTH BALDWIN ANIMAL SHELTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +300%
- MPMcKemie Place Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- COCHILDREN OF THE WORLD INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -59%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +46%
- TNTHE NEST CORPORATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +126%
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.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.
The purpose of the organization is to make lives better through music by producing and promoting symphonic music and delivering music education programs throughout Alabama and the Gulf Coast region.
Provide services and support to prevent cruelty and provide shelter to animals
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
The mission of Individual and Family Support of South Alabama, Inc. is to adopt and implement projects that support and enhance the lives of persons with disabilities in Alabama.
The Organization was established with children in mind. Through its programs, it feeds children in need, promotes responsible fatherhood, and helps families in crisis.
To present a forum for business and citizens where an exchange of ideas can occur that will make Mobile a better place to live, work and do business.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village of Spring Hill Inc and the most unlike its peers is Country Club Estates Neighborhood Association Inc. 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 30 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 Autism2Ability Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds NORTH BALDWIN ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE NEST CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TENNIS PATRONS 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: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · Dog Hill Foundation · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner
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 Hyman 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.
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