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Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUB | $16,155 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MOBILE AREA COUNCIL | $8,520 |
| SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST | $3,360 |
| ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC | $3,350 |
| DOG RIVER CLEARWATER REVIVAL | $2,500 |
| RIVER DISCOVERY | $2,500 |
| EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION GULF COAST | $2,500 |
| IMPACT 100 | $2,010 |
| ALABAMA COASTAL HERITAGE TRUST | $1,300 |
| MISSION INCREASE | $1,000 |
| ALABAMA RIVERS ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| EASTERN SHORE ART CENTER | $500 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL | $350 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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 +49% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- MBMobile Baykeeper Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +99%
- RDRIVER DISCOVERY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +70%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD INC2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +231%
Funded once
- RYROTARY YOUTHone grant, 2023 · $18k
- FOFRIENDS OF PERDIDO BAY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
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 Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
The land trust leads regional and community collaborations that plan, preserve and provide stewardship for green space in north alabama. our mission is to preserve and protect north alabama's scenic, historic, and ecological resources…
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,…
At Conservation Alabama, we work to ensure that decisions made by our local, state, and national elected officials protect the people and places of Alabama.
We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.
Alabama audubon's mission is to promote conservation and a greater knowledge of birds, their habitats, and the natural world.
To conduct pure and applied research, provide both structured education programs and information in non-instructional formats for individuals, organizations, and governance interested in and dependent upon the coastal and marine…
To promote tourism and economic development in alabamato promote natural resource conservation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 51 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 Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds LEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds RIVER DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds DOG RIVER CLEARWATER REVIVAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD INC ↗
- Who funds The Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RUFF WILSON YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN COUNTY UNITED ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of 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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Impact 100 Baldwin County · Mapp Family Foundation · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Rc Craft Family Foundation · The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc · Snook Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sybil and White Smith Foundation · Mw Smith Jr 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 Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 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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