· Private foundation
The Sybil Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $300,000 |
| NORTHWEST FLORIDA BALLET | $50,000 |
| ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE | $46,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM | $33,169 |
| MOBILE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $12,500 |
| PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALABAMA | $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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +79% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNORTHWEST FLORIDA BALLET INC4× · 2018–2024 · $200k · revenue +16%
- MCMONROE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM4× · 2018–2024 · $127k · revenue +100%
- MMMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- AFAlabama Forest Land Trust Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +194%
- SOSOCIETY OF 1868 INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -40%
- FTFeeding the Gulf Coastone grant, 2020 · $10k · 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.
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 purpose of the organization is to make lives better through music by producing and promoting symphonic music and delivering music education programs throughout Alabama and the Gulf Coast region.
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
To present a forum for business and citizens where an exchange of ideas can occur that will make Mobile a better place to live, work and do business.
The South Alabama Land Trust protects land and promotes environmental education in coastal Alabama so current and future residents can enjoy clean water and the seafood, wildlife, and outdoor recreation that define our area.
To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.
Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
To coordinate and to encourage cultural endeavors and to promote knowledge and appreciation of the arts and humanities in southeast alabama.
Acquire, preserve, protect, restore, manage & improve alabama lands & water of ecological, scientific, scenic, wildlife or recreational significance. conduct, sponsor, and encourage, engage in ecological study & research. support…
The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.
To create tangible links to the past for the benefit of present and future generations.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FLORIDA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF 1868 INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Build A Better Community ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MOBILE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Area Interfaith Conference ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds Adoption Rocks Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds Mobile Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobile International Festival 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sybil Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sybil Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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