· Private foundation
The Nolen Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $170,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS | $45,000 |
| SOZO CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF HOPE HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| UMCOR | $10,000 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $5,750 |
| CRISIS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S FOLD | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) 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 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 +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME9× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +13%
- SCSOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +80%
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +159%
- SFSUKI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%
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.
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.
To provide residential care for children and youth, therapeutic programs, adoption and foster care, independent living skills and transitional living services.
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
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.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
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…
Collins family ministries, inc. exists to embody the love of christ by providing compassion to families, children, and at-risk youth who are experiencing hardship. we provide shelter for children, strength to families, and stability to our…
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Providing food & shelter to the homeless and transitioning the homeless toward permanent independence in housing.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 34 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.
- 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 CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALTURAS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS FOLD INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds ALTRUA MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nolen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nolen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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