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The Propst 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $324k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LEARNING CENTER | $57,911 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH ALABAMA | $54,000 |
| KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION | $54,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH ALABAMA | $54,000 |
| MANNA HOUSE | $54,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $50,000 |
| VILLAGE OF PROMISE | $40,000 |
| ACE THE STIGMA | $25,000 |
| WELLSTONE | $25,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| HEALS INC | $15,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTH ALABAMA HOMEBUILDING ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- HDHUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +79%
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +105%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA9× · 2017–2025 · $459k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- HLHUNTSVILLE LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k
- UMUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +17%
- NHNew Hope Children's Clinicone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The alabama public health association, inc., is an association of individuals and organizations interested in public health in alabama. the mission of the association is to link individuals and organizations in addressing public health…
Northeast alabama health services, inc. is a non-profit corporation, established to provide quality health care services to the underserved populations of northeast alabama and contiguous areas regardless of language, financial, or…
The organization works to provide free primary medical care to working, lower-income, uninsured citizens in Houston County, GA.
Enable senior citizens to maintain independence
The huntington county humane society exists to protect and provide shelter for animals and to encourage the humane treatment of all animals in huntington county.
Promote animal care and placement
Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Twickenham Historic Preservation District Associat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 HUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALS INC ↗
- Who funds TWICKENHAM HISTORIC PRESERVATION DISTRICT ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEASH ON LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Huntsville Inc ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds NORTH ALABAMA HOMEBUILDING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Huntsville Charitable Fund ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Hope Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Ashburn Family Foundation · Stender Family 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 Propst 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.
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