Alabama · Private foundation
The Nelson and Charleen Kemp 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.
- $213k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $213k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $214k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $214k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $210k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $225k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $84,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Backpacks and Beyond | $43,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Marion County Humane Society Inc | $25,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Carbon Hill Womens Club Inc | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hand in Paw Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kirkland Bluff Wayside Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Marion County High School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Studio by the Tracks Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Safeplace Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | $84,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Backpacks and Beyond | $43,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Marion County Humane Society Inc | $25,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Carbon Hill Womens Club Inc | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hand in Paw Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kirkland Bluff Wayside Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Marion County High School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Studio by the Tracks Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Safeplace Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sixty Feet Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Will Bright Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Winfield City Schools Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Winfield Chamber of Commerce | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($976k), not named here.
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: Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation with peer funders
About The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation
- How much does The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation give?
- The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $213,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Public Benefit (15%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Big Oak Ranch Inc ($84k), Backpacks and Beyond ($43k), Marion County Humane Society Inc ($25k).
- Does The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hill Crest Foundation Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation based?
- The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation is based in AL.
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