· 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.
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 $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $426k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $51,597 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| BRIDGEWAYS | $32,000 |
| REED GI CANCER RESEARCH | $30,000 |
| ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $28,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $28,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| KINGS HOME | $25,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANCE SOCIETY | $22,500 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| RISE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $20,000 |
| MAGIC MOMENTS | $20,000 |
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, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +69%
- KHKings Home Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +99%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $161k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AAALABAMA ARCHIVES & HISTORY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +254% · 39% of their budget
- NHNICARAGUAN HEALTH INCone grant, 2018 · $50k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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…
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.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
Alabama sports foundation exists to optimize the athlete experience through performance, education, innovation, and implementation. alabama sports foundation does this with each individual by partnering with teams, clubs, and…
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 promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
Serve kidney patients in Alabama by providing financial assistance, patient education, and support. Provide education and public awareness of causes and prevention of disease, as well as opportunity for organ donation. Provide support via…
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Christopher Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 129 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 ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bridgeways Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds ON RIVER TIME ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds BIGTIME MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ARCHIVES & HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Nicaraguan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Thomas E Jernigan 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.