· Private foundation
The Welch Group 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREATE BIRMINGHAM | $25,000 |
| GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING & FAMILY | $25,000 |
| REDEEMER CITY TO CITY | $20,001 |
| YMCA OF MOUNTAIN BROOK | $12,500 |
| CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE DEPT 485 | $10,000 |
| RED MOUNTAIN PARK | $10,000 |
| QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FUND | $2,500 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| BIRMINGHAM TALKS | $2,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- CBCREATE BIRMINGHAM5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +81%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +68%
- BUBUILD UP2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- LRLOCAL RESTAURANT COVID RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $60k
- MBMOUNTAIN BROOK MERCHANT EMERGENCYone grant, 2020 · $40k
- RTREACHING & TEACHING INT'L MINISTRYone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
To solicit, collect and administer funds and property to be used soley for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes.
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,…
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.
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.
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
Rev birmingham (rev) creates vibrant commercial districts.
Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Moroun Family Foudation. 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 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 74 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 CREATE BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD UP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ONCOLOGY ACCELERATED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP VESTAVIA HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVER SERVICE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMALL MAGIC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds AMANDA PAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN 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 · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc
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 Welch Group 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.