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The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable 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.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$488kHealth$195kHuman Services$135kRecreation & Sports$107kEducation$81kReligion$51kArts & Culture$47kYouth Development$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVELADY CENTER$25,000
REGIONS TRADITION LLC$12,000
RENEW BIRMINGHAM$10,000
URBAN MINISTRIES$10,000
FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK$10,000
RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY$8,000
MONDAY MORNING QUARTER BACK CLUB$6,000
CORNERSTONE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MOUNTAIN BROOK FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED WAY$5,000
ASCENSION ST VINCENTS FOUNDATION$5,000
UNLESS U SCHOOL$3,000
FOUNDRY MINISTRIES$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 13%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $500 → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $500 → 13%HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA: $1k → 16%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $500 → 7%LOVELADY CENTER: $25k → 16%LOVELADY CENTER: $500 → 16%LOVELADY CENTER: $500 → 16%LOVELADY CENTER: $500 → 16%LOVELADY CENTER: $500 → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $25k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $10k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING & TRAINING CENTER: $250 → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $5k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $5k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $5k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $2k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $2k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $1k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $1k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $500 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $3k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $3k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $900 → 16%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

AK
WI
NY
IA
NJ
CT
VA
TN
NC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$576k · 58 repeat orgs$628k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
98

Total granted

$576k
$596k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+12%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TM
    The Monday Morning Quarterback Club
    7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +8%
  • RB
    RENEW BIRMINGHAM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +29%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2021 · $452k
  • PT
    PGA TOUR INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -48%
  • GA
    GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -11%
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
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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2
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
3
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
4
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health
5
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
6
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
7
Birmingham Association of Realtors Inc

To promote the value of using a realtor and to enhance our members' opportunities to serve customers in a professional, ethical and profitable manner within an environment that fosters cooperation among the membership.

Community Improvement
8
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment
9
Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

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10
Alabama Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics

Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.

Health
11
Innovate Birmingham

Innovate birmingham is a nonprofit organization working to promote economic mobility and fill the tech talent gap in central alabama.

Employment
12
Chamber of Comm Executives Assoc of Alabama Inc

To build a better alabama through stronger chambers of commerce

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham; the most unlike its peers is Beaux Arts Krewe. 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

68 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. 68 of the 162 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
50/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $451,667 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAMIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club: $66,000 · OtherThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club+117 more: $330,635 · Other+117 moreRENEW BIRMINGHAM: $35,000 · Human ServicesRENEW BIRM…FREEDOM RAIN INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RA…THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER…THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $15,250 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDR…FIRST LIGHT INC: $6,200 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGH…+6 more: $8,250 · Human Services+6 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $17,610 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,330 · PhilanthropyTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $20,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,000 · HealthAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation: $8,500 · HealthUNITED ABILITY INC: $2,500 · Health+6 more: $3,600 · HealthMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $10,849 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,080 · EducationTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $2,500 · EducationBronze Valley Foundation: $2,500 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Education+5 more: $2,750 · EducationRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$923,302Human Services$110,700Philanthropy$53,940Health$50,600Education$32,429Arts & Culture$19,600Recreation & Sports$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club: $66,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetRENEW BIRMINGHAM: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $17,610 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $15,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $12,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $10,849 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPGA TOUR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $6,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBirmingham Business Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBronze Valley Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 80% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUX ARTS KREWE: $2,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE WAY PARTNERS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR TO CITIZEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALABAMA GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKings Home Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 The Monday Morning Quarterback Club ↗
  • Who funds RENEW BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
  • Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PGA TOUR INC ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Birmingham Business Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗

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.

Protective Life Found…The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Altecstyslinger Found…Hill Crest Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Dunn-French FoundationMike and Gillian Good…The Hackney FoundationDebardeleben Foundati…Alabama Power Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…
Protective Life FoundationAL72.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Dunn-French Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer 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 Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pga Tour Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 162 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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