· Private foundation
The Lottsamford Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE LOTTSAMFORD FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMS WRIGHT PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE FAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISPOCAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| DRUG EDUCATION COUNCIL | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,000 |
| SOUTH ALABAMA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS | $1,000 |
| DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB | $500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - FARRA LAW SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $250 |
| DAUPHIN ISLAND FOUNDATION | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UCUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +28%
- MMMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +79%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- AARCHWAYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +131%
- MCMOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +42%
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 further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
Promote charitable, educational, scientific, and cultural activities in the city of montgomery, alabama.
To promote scouting in the south alabama area
Community and economic development
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
Promotion of the economic development of calhoun county, alabama
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
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.
To preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of biloxi and the mississippi gulf coast.
The alabama forestry association works to promote good stewardship of our renewable forest resources for the benefit of society, our members, and the forest products industry.
To elevate the legal profession to the highest possible standards, regulate its practice, and provide continuing legal education to its members.
The chamber is a member organization whose purpose is to promote commerce and business in the greenville alabama area
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 The Fay School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Fay School ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS AREA LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENVISION OPELIKA FOUNDATION 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: The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Doy & Margaret McCall Family Foundation · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee
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 Lottsamford Family Charitable 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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