· Private foundation
The Nolen Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $170,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS | $45,000 |
| SOZO CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF HOPE HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $5,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S FOLD | $5,000 |
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +13%
- SCSOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +80%
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- SSMILE-A-MILEone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +24%
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +159%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
Street life ministries organizes local churches, civic groups, private individuals and other interested parties to serve the local homeless and impoverished population by providing meals and ad hoc counseling to urge them toward resources…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.
Coyote Hill provides shelter, counseling, educational assistance, and healthcare services to sexually, physically, emotionally abused, and/or neglected children.
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
To provide hope and care to hurting children and families through christ centered ministries
To prevent childhood deprivation of families in Lancaster County, SC by meeting basic nutritional needs, providing Christmas assistance and workplace training and literacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alturas Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTURAS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS FOLD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALTRUA MINISTRIES 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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Community Food Bank of Central Alabama
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 Nolen Family 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.