· Private foundation
The James Barnett Chenoweth Memorial 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST HEALTH CENTER | $4,138 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION | $3,500 |
| UAB COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $3,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OASIS COUNSELING FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| FIREHOUSE MINISTRIES | $1,800 |
| FIRST LIGHT | $1,500 |
| MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER | $1,500 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FRESH AIR FARM | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $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 (FY18–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CHChrist Health Center Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +96%
- CSChristian Service Mission Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +19%
- FLFIRST LIGHT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- OCO'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
To be the leading provider of excellent healthcare for the communities we serve.
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
Christian Healthcare Specialists exists to provide exceptional medical services to the community, guided by Biblical values.
To provide high quality primary health care and related services to the community regardless of the ability to pay, in a manner which demonstrates in work and deed the love of Jesus Christ.
Operation of an episodic care clinic for the medically indigent.
The mission of The Women's Center is to significantly improve the mental health and well-being of all members of our community through counseling, education, and support - regardless of ability to pay.
GMHC was organized to provide family centered, community oriented, and comprehensive health services to patients in Meridian and surrounding areas.
UNITED MEDICAL CENTERS IS A TJC ACCREDITED COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER WHOSE MISSION IS TO ASSURE THE AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF BASIC PRIMARY AND PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO ALL RESIDENTS OF THE SERVICE AREA. AT UNITED MEDICAL…
The mission of Southeast Community Health Systems is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to all patients in underserved areas and to improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve.
Provide excellent state of the art emergency care while maintaining respect and compassion for patients and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcwane Science Center and the most unlike its peers is First Light Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 Christ Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Dunn-French Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn Foundation · The Faulkner Family Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 James Barnett Chenoweth Memorial 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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