Alabama · Private foundation
The Thomas E Jernigan 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.
- $628k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,597
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $628k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $601k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $783k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $671k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $648k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $629k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $661k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $671k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Wildlife Federation | $221,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kings Home Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $161,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bridgeways Inc | $145,600 | 8 | 2% |
| The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc | $122,650 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $103,500 | 4 | 0% |
| McWane Science Center | $90,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Birmingham Zoo Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alabama Sports Hall of Fame | $82,500 | 5 | 4% |
| On River Time | $80,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation · The Hackney Foundation
How this is measured
About The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation
- How much does The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation give?
- The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $627,797 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Animals (17%), Religion (15%).
- Who are The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alabama Wildlife Federation ($221k), Kings Home Inc ($170k), American Heart Association Inc ($161k).
- Does The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Hill Crest Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.
- Where is The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation based?
- The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation is based in AL.
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