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· Public charity
Tombigbee Resource Conservation and
To carry out activities that accelerate the development, conservation and wise use of human, financial and natural resources in order to improve the standard of living within the area.
$883k
Granted FY2025
77
Grants
1
Communities
$29k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of Tombigbee Resource Conservation and’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
educational incentivesherohousing
2020
educational incentivesworksherotuscaloosahousing educationyouth
2021
educational incentivesboardsumterhubbertvillefirecommission
2022
develworkingvfdlibraryalicevilleeutawfire
2023
placeimpactbuiltboy scoutsoperationgroupsfacilities
2024
freedomcitizenspreservejobeducatechurchtraining
2025
pregnancywater districtencourageboy scoutsboligeelivescultural
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 77 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $300k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $518k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$673k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Town of Pickensville$28,500
- Pickens County Sheriff Office$25,500
- Stewart Community Association$25,000
- Sumter County Commission$25,000
- Brookwood High School$20,000
- University of West Alabama$20,000
- Hubbertville School$18,888
- Northwest Regional Library$16,771
- Fayette Middle School$16,650
- Tony Dixon Foundation$15,000
- Hale County Community Enrichment Society Inc$15,000
- Auburn University$13,050
- New Horizon Youth$13,005
- E&B Fields Community Service Program$12,525
- Hale County Commission$12,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 62 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else
62 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
62
82
Total granted
$2.5M
$861k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+63%
+77%
Still filing today
19%
24%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureReligionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
- UCUniversity Charter Schools4× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +977%
- WMWest Mid Alabama Community Development Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +40%
- LFLakeview Fire and Protection District4× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FFFreedom Farm Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +6100%
- EWEAGLE'S WINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +144%
- EWEAGLES' WINGS INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Shelby County Historical Society
Preserve the history of shelby county al
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2
New Bethel Volunteer Fire Dept
Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Central Alabama Works
To recruit, train, and empower a highly skilled workforce driven by business and industry needs and to be the competitive advantage for alabama's economic growth.
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4
Wiregrass Rc&D Council
To develop natural and human resources to furher conservation for the benefit of the general public To promote soil and water conservation To develop the natural resources in a 10 county area of Alabama
Environment
5
Harvest Volunteer Fire Dept
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Elberta Volunteer Fire Department
To train volunteer firefighters and respond to emergency calls within the area. to provide emergency care as necessary to the area based on 911 calls and emergency medical services.
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7
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality
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8
Harrison County Fire and Rescue
Provide training for fire and rescue mem
Public Safety & Disaster
9
Landmarks of Dekalb County Inc
Landmarks of dekalb county, inc was created for the purpose of sharing and preserving the history of the people and places in dekalb county, alabama.
Arts & Culture
10
Stapleton Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated
Provide fire fighting and emergency services to the stapleton, al community
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Lighthouse of Tallapoosa County in
Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics
Health
12
Haycock Fire Co 1
Volunteer Fire Fighting
Public Safety & Disaster
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hale Empowerment & Revitalzation Organization Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Horseshoe Farm. 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 13 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.6%1/168
the rest of the field
13%
142/1,088
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.
05the grantee network
43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/43
Grantees still filing
34/43
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,210,503Human Services$120,303Education$83,235Community Improvement$68,095Arts & Culture$54,406Housing & Shelter$52,270Crime & Legal$48,604
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.
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.
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL34.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · West Alabama Regional Commission · Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater · Alabama Business Charitable Trust Fund · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 organisation Tombigbee Resource Conservation and 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ZHBC Community Development Corporation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 13.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 463347878 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ZHBC Community Development Corporation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Tombigbee Resource Conservation and?
Find your warmest path to Tombigbee Resource Conservation and through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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