· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KINGS HOME | $25,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANCE SOCIETY | $22,500 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA | $20,000 |
| ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $20,000 |
| MAGIC MOMENTS | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| RISE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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,…
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 129 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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