· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +44% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +57%
- HIHAND IN PAW INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +91%
- SSMILE-A-MILE6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- WRWINFIELD RECYCLING PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SFSIXTY FEET INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
- WBWill Bright Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
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…
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.
To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.
Probide a safe and sober living space for individuals recovering from substance abuse.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
Shelter and support to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Bright tomorrows provides crisis intervention, child abuse interview, and mental health counseling and assessment services for children.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 53 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nelson and Charleen Kemp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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