· Private foundation
The James I Harrison Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of West Alabam | $200,000 |
| Holy Spirit Catholic Church | $100,000 |
| United Way of West Alabama | $60,000 |
| Community Foundation of West Alabam | $50,000 |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $25,000 |
| Rise Capstone Foundation | $25,000 |
| Samford University Pharmacy School | $25,000 |
| Nick's Kids Foundation | $24,000 |
| DCH Foundation | $15,000 |
| Auburn University Harrison School o | $15,000 |
| Auburn University Harrison School o | $15,000 |
| Hospice of West Alabama | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| Catholic Charities | $12,000 |
| Black Warrior Boy Scouts | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +60% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +43%
- NKNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +83%
Samford University4× · 2017–2020 · $83k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TSTUSCALOOSA SPORTS AND TOURISMone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -87%
- RCRise Centerone grant, 2018 · $36k
- MPMt Pilgrim Baptist Churchone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Social services
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of West Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 103 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 UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DCH Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA SPORTS AND TOURISM ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEDICAL DISASTER RELIEF INC ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · McAbee Family Foundation · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation · Cecile C Craig Charitable Test Trust · Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation · Ah Bean Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation
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 I Harrison Family 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.