· Private foundation
The Melvin and Virginia Hutson Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE MELVIN AND VIRGINIA HUTSON 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRONTLINE MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $67,500 |
| GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| MOUNT ABARIM BAPTIST MISSION | $38,500 |
| THE FRIENDS OF ISRAEL GOSPEL MINIST | $36,000 |
| GREENTREE GLOBAL | $30,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYR | $21,000 |
| GLOBAL CHRISTIAN RELIEF | $18,000 |
| FLINT CHURCH OF CHRIST | $15,000 |
| MAYFAIR CHURCH OF CHRIST | $15,000 |
| BAPTIST WORLD MISSION | $14,000 |
| DARE FOR MORE MINISTRIES INC | $13,000 |
| PROJECT RESCUE | $10,000 |
| ALL POINT BAPTIST MISSION | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK CHURCH OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
| CHILDHAVEN | $10,000 |
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, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FMFRONTLINE MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $488k · revenue +33%
- MAMOUNT ABARIM BAPTIST MISSIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +43%
- HCHERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ERENCOUNTER REVIVAL MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- GCGUNNISON CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ through missions.
Religious organization
provide christian counseling
Ministry is a cristian church focusing on spreading the word of god, humanitarian help, reaching out to communities in need, provide financial help, build new churches.
Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Biblical counseling
Religious ministry
Provide housing, food and rehabilitation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhaven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 69 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 FRONTLINE MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ABARIM BAPTIST MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ↗
- Who funds AGAPE OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALTA MONS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL ↗
- Who funds DARE FOR MORE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew 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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Solley Foundation · Seed Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Melvin and Virginia Hutson 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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