· Public charity
Tombigbee Resource Conservation and Development Council
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of Tombigbee Resource Conservation and Development Council’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 77 grants below total $818,013 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $882,988 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,975 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $300k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $518k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Town of Pickensville | $28,500 |
| Pickens County Sheriff Office | $25,500 |
| Sumter County Commission | $25,000 |
| Stewart Community Association | $25,000 |
| University of West Alabama | $20,000 |
| Brookwood High School | $20,000 |
| Hubbertville School | $18,888 |
| Northwest Regional Library | $16,771 |
| Fayette Middle School | $16,650 |
| Hale County Community Enrichment Society Inc | $15,000 |
| Tony Dixon Foundation | $15,000 |
| Auburn University | $13,050 |
| New Horizon Youth | $13,005 |
| E&B Fields Community Service Program | $12,525 |
| Hale County Commission | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
67 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 23 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- UCUniversity Charter School5× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +220%
- LFLAKEVIEW FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT4× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +31%
- BFBRIERFIELD FIRE AND RESCUE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- FFFREEDOM FARM INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -46%
- EWEAGLE WINGS INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
- EWEAGLES' WINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +37%
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.
Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama
Preserve the history of shelby county al
Preservation of historic
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
Social services
Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics
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.
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.
The mission of the stapleton fire department is to provide protection of life, property and environment from fires and other emergencies for the community of stapleton.
To promote travel and tourism within dekalb county, alabama
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hale Empowerment & Revitalzation Organization Inc and the most unlike its peers is Genesis Inc. 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) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 168 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.
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · West Alabama Regional Commission · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils · Alabama Business Charitable Trust Fund Inc · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation
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 Tombigbee Resource Conservation and Development Council 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.
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