· Private foundation
Tom Ogletree Memorial Schshp Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NE ALABAMA | $11,972 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA | $11,972 |
| SYLACAUGA CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $11,972 |
| ALABAMA OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $11,972 |
| CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $500 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $500 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIV OF ALABAMA FBO SARAH SHERBERT2× · 2022–2023 · $4k
- SSSARAH SHERBERT CO UNIV OF ALABAMA2× · 2020–2021 · $3k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2024 · $2k
Funded once
- HCHUNTINGDON COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +13%
- TDTREVOR DELOACH CO JACKSONVILLE STATEone grant, 2020 · $750
- JGJESHAIAH GADDIS CO UNIV OF ALABAMAone grant, 2020 · $750
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.
4 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. 4 of the 14 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom Ogletree Memorial Schshp Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom Ogletree Memorial Schshp Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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