· Private foundation
The James I Harrison Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of West Alabama | $60,000 |
| Holy Spirit Catholic Church | $55,000 |
| Rise Center Building Expansion Fund | $50,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $33,333 |
| Univ of AL Rise Foundation | $25,000 |
| Samford University Pharmacy School | $25,000 |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $25,000 |
| Black Warrior Boy Scouts | $24,000 |
| Nick's Kids Foundation | $24,000 |
| Additon Prevention Coalition | $20,000 |
| DCH Foundation | $18,000 |
| St John's Church | $17,000 |
| Hospice of West Alabama | $15,000 |
| Auburn University Harrison School o | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 31 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; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +43%
- NKNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $214k · 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
- SUSamford University School of Pharmaone grant, 2017 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Social services
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…
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
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.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
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 mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 JUDSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THEATRE TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- 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 HISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCALOOSA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEDICAL DISASTER RELIEF INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James I Harrison Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James I Harrison Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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