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The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork at a glance

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The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$363k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$360kPhilanthropy$297kEducation$188kCrime & Legal$86kHealth$78kReligion$65kHuman Services$46kArts & Culture$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK$100,000
UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA$74,000
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$35,000
THE SABAN CENTER$20,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST ALABAMA$15,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$12,350
TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FUND$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,000
PARA$5,500
KRISTEN AMERSON YOUTH FOUNDATION$5,100
NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA$5,000
EMPOWERED TO CONQUER$5,000
HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA$5,000
DCH FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 10%UNITE US: $1k → 18%FRESH AIR FAMILY: $2k → 16%CARING DAYS: $1k → 17%CARING DAYS: $1k → 17%CARING DAYS: $1k → 17%CARING DAYS: $1k → 17%CARING DAYS: $1k → 17%EAGLES' WINGS: $1k → 17%EAGLES' WINGS: $1k → 17%TUSCALOOSA'S ONE PLACE: $5k → 17%YMCA: $2k → 17%YMCA: $2k → 17%TUSCALOOSA'S ONE PLACE: $1k → 17%HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA: $6k → 17%HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA: $5k → 17%HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
PA
MO
TN
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 52 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
36

Total granted

$1.2M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+41%

Still filing today

52%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $274k · revenue +22%
  • TT
    THEATRE TUSCALOOSA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST ALABAMA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +742%

Funded once

  • SC
    SABAN CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +746%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS WEST AL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TC
    TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The West Alabama Chamber Foundation Inc

To solicit, collect and administer funds and property to be used soley for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes.

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2
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
3
Child Abuse Prevention Services of Tuscaloosa Inc

The organizations purpose is to provide services to individuals for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
4
Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County

Advancement of the arts

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5
Alabama Public Health Association Inc

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…

Health
6
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
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7
The Arc of Tuscaloosa

The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…

Human Services
8
Arc of Tusc County Endowment Fund

To receive, invest and manage funds for the benefit of the arc of tuscaloosa county.

Philanthropy
9
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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11
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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12
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of West Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $350,000 · OtherWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCTHE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $85,000 · OtherTHE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $60,850 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMACHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHTHE SABAN CENTER: $40,000 · Other+77 more: $320,695 · Other+77 moreUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $274,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAM…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA: $10,500 · PhilanthropyTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,300 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesTUSCALOOSA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesThe Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In: $5,100 · Human ServicesCARING DAYS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesYMCA: $4,000 · Human ServicesEAGLES' WINGS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFRESH AIR FAMILY INC: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · HealthARTS' N AUTISM INC: $5,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 · HealthHANK POORE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $1,200 · HealthSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public BenefitTUSCALOOSA ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationDCH Foundation Inc: $9,000 · EducationStillman College: $1,000 · EducationTUSCALOOSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA HEALTHCARE HALL OF FAME: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$916,545Philanthropy$295,800Human Services$36,600Health$21,200Public Benefit$20,000Education$20,000Arts & Culture$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $350,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $274,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $85,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetTUSCALOOSA COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHEATRE TUSCALOOSA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $20,200 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $19,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetTUSCALOOSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA: $10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTUSCALOOSA ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDCH Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF TUSCALOOSA INC: $7,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTUSCALOOSA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In: $5,100 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS' N AUTISM INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARING DAYS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHANK POORE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetALABAMA HEALTHCARE HALL OF FAME: $2,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTEMPORARY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLES' WINGS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FAMILY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Alabama Choir School Inc: $1,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITEUS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStillman College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWill Bright Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALABAMA MARINES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAV-A-Life Of Tuscaloosa Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST ALABAMA REGIONAL COMMISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC TUSCALOOSA INC: $500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFILTER OF HOPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MINISTRY INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALABAMA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEREFORD FOOD PANTRY: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $100 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TUSCALOOSA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DCH Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS' N AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES 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.

Alabama Power Foundat…The James I Harrison …Nick's Kids Foundatio…The Daniel Foundation…Se Belcher Jr Private…McAbee Family Foundat…The Westervelt Founda…Cecile C Craig Charit…The Community Foundat…Robert & Mary Cobb Fa…Ah Bean Foundation IncLonnie & Kitty Strick…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL50.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The James I Harrison Family Foundation · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · McAbee Family Foundation · The Westervelt Foundation · Cecile C Craig Charitable Test Trust · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation · Ah Bean Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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