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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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$202kPublic Benefit$190kEducation$134kHuman Services$133kHealth$95kPublic Safety & Disaster$89kReligion$88kCommunity Improvement$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF WINFIELD -WINFIELD PASTIME THEATRE$30,000
CITY OF WINFIELD MAIN STREET$30,000
CITY OF WINFIELD -DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION$15,000
BIG OAK RANCH$12,000
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH$12,000
CITY OF WINFIELD - RECYCLING PROJECT$10,000
FAYETTE COUNTRY SCHOOL DISTRICT - HUBBERTVILLE SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
BACKPACKS AND BEYOND$8,000
ELDRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$8,000
CITY OF WINFIELD - WINFIELD PARK AND RECREATION - SENIOR CITIZEN PROGAM$5,000
CITY OF WINFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
CITY OF WINFIELD - PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION$5,000
MARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG OAK RANCH: $15k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $15k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $15k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $15k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $12k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $12k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 34 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
10

Total granted

$1.1M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+1%

Still filing today

15%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BO
    BIG OAK RANCH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +57%
  • S
    SMILE-A-MILE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +44%
  • HI
    HAND IN PAW INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • WR
    WINFIELD RECYCLING PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • SF
    SIXTY FEET INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • WB
    Will Bright Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Clearview Recovery Inc

Clearview recovery, inc. strives to be identified as a premier provider of client driven substance abuse services. it is committed to empowering and treating all clients in an individualized, effective, and responsible manner. working with…

Health
2
SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc

SafePath's mission is to reduce the trauma to children and their families by offering a comprehensive, professional and child-friendly approach to allegations of child abuse.

3
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.

4
Broadway House Inc

Probide a safe and sober living space for individuals recovering from substance abuse.

Health
5
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Manitowoc County Inc

To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

6
Brighthouse Inc

Shelter and support to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Human Services
7
Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center Inc

Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.

Health
8
Brigid Collins House

Our mission is to strengthen community health and resilience by providing comprehensive support to children and their families. our vision is a thriving community where no child suffers.

Human Services
9
The Bridge Inc

To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.

Health
10
Bright Strides Inc

To contribute to the emotional, physical and psychological betterment of mankind by integrating equine assisted psychotherapy, equine assisted learning and related activities with art and other non-traditional therapies to create a…

Health
11
Bright Tomorrows

Bright tomorrows provides crisis intervention, child abuse interview, and mental health counseling and assessment services for children.

12
Wills Place Inc

We are a recovery resource center and sober living/recovery house. will's place is designed to accommodate men who have been through primary treatment and are looking for a sober living environment as they progress in their recovery.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safeplace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winfield Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF WINFIELD MAIN STREET — $175,000 · OtherCITY OF WINFIELD MAIN STREETWINFIELD PASTIME THEATRE — $140,000 · OtherWINFIELD PASTIME THEATREHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH — $70,000 · OtherHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCHHUBBERTVILLE SCHOOLS — $50,000 · OtherELDRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $48,000 · OtherCITY OF WINFIELD — $47,000 · OtherBACKPACKS AND BEYOND — $43,000 · Other+39 more — $537,000 · Other+39 moreBIG OAK RANCH INC — $84,000 · Human ServicesSMILE-A-MILE — $24,000 · HealthHAND IN PAW INC — $24,000 · AnimalsSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSIXTY FEET INC — $5,000 · InternationalWill Bright Foundation Inc — $5,000 · ReligionWINFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,110,000Human Services$84,000Health$24,000Animals$24,000Arts & Culture$12,000International$5,000Religion$5,000Community Improvement$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $84,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $24,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC — $24,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSAFEPLACE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTY FEET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWill Bright Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 BIG OAK RANCH INC
  • Who funds SMILE-A-MILE
  • Who funds HAND IN PAW INC
  • Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC
  • Who funds SAFEPLACE INC
  • Who funds SIXTY FEET 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.

Hill Crest Foundation IncAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nelson and Charleen Kemp 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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