· Private foundation
The Westervelt 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $279k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY OF TUSCALOSA | $125,000 |
| SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA | $54,000 |
| JIMMY RANE FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $5,500 |
| ROOTED TUSCALOOSA | $5,000 |
| BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL - SCOUTING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| SACRAMENTO SPLASH | $5,000 |
| FRESHWATER LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TUSCALOOSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
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 (FY22–25, $84k) 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $262k · revenue +35%
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION4× · 2021–2025 · $131k · revenue +23%
- JRJIMMY RANE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- WAWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
- FFFULTON FIRE AND RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
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.
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.
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.
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
The alabama forestry association works to promote good stewardship of our renewable forest resources for the benefit of society, our members, and the forest products industry.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The business and purpose of this corporation shall be to promote, protect, and represent the interest of owners of forest lands in the state of Alabama; to make Alabama Forest Owners Association members the most knowledgeable forest…
A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.
The alabama association of conservation districts (aacd) is the unified voice of alabama's 67 conservation districts. organized as a 501(c)3, aacd works in cooperation with the alabama soil & water conservation committee, federal, state,…
Promote forest industry & forest products
Advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the water works industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brierfield Fire and Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 93 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 UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JIMMY RANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Splash ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS' N AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
- Who funds The Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
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 Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · Hewson Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Alabama Inc · The James I Harrison Family Foundation · Holle Family Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Westervelt 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.