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Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 at a glance

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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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$137kYouth Development$73kHealth$27kArts & Culture$15kEducation$11kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RIVER DISCOVERY$2,500
EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION GULF COAST$2,500
DOG RIVER CLEARWATER REVIVAL$2,500
IMPACT 100$2,010
ALABAMA COASTAL HERITAGE TRUST$1,300
ALABAMA RIVERS ALLIANCE$1,000
MISSION INCREASE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$500
EASTERN SHORE ART CENTER$500
FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL$350
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF PERDIDO BAY: $5k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH ALABAMA: $5k → 11%SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $3k → 12%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MOBILE AREA COUNCIL: $9k → 19%TROUT UNLIMITED: $3k → 7%LEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%MOBILE BAY SIERRA CLUB: $3k → 11%SOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $3k → 12%ALABAMA RIVERS ALLIANCE: $3k → 16%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MOBILE AREA COUNCIL: $4k → 19%LEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $4k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MOBILE AREA COUNCIL: $3k → 19%ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH: $3k → 14%LEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S LITERACY SERVICES: $2k → 12%MOBILE BAYKEEPER: $20k → 19%KAPPA LEAGUE: $5k → 12%MOBILE BAYKEEPER: $13k → 19%DESTINY CHURCH INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 12%MOBILE BAYKEEPER: $4k → 19%EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $3k → 12%ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 19%RUFF WILSON YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 12%ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 19%EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $3k → 12%MOBILE SYMPHONY: $2k → 19%EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $2k → 12%BAYSIDE ACADEMY: $2k → 12%FEEDING THE GULF COAST: $2k → 19%ROTARY YOUTH: $18k → 12%FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUB: $16k → 12%SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST: $10k → 12%FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUB: $9k → 12%SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST: $8k → 12%SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST: $7k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD: $7k → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS (ALL CONTRIBUTIONS 1000 OR UNDER): $6k → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS (ALL CONTRIBUTIONS 1000 OR UNDER): $6k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD: $5k → 12%SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST: $4k → 12%SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST: $3k → 12%SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST: $3k → 12%FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUB: $3k → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS (ALL CONTRIBUTIONS 1000 OR UNDER): $3k → 12%MISC CONTRIBUTIONS (ALL CONTRIBUTIONS 1000 OR UNDER): $3k → 12%FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUB: $2k → 12%IMPACT 100: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$253k · 22 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
23

Total granted

$253k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+17%

Still filing today

64%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MB
    Mobile Baykeeper Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +99%
  • RD
    RIVER DISCOVERY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +70%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • RY
    ROTARY YOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PERDIDO BAY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
2
Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc

The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.

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3
Conservation Al Foundation Inc

To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.

Education
4
Coastal Alabama Partnership

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc

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…

Environment
6
Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives

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.

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7
Alabama Association of Conservation Districts Inc

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,…

Environment
8
Conservation Alabama

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.

Environment
9
Wild South

We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.

Environment
10
Alabama Audubon

Alabama audubon's mission is to promote conservation and a greater knowledge of birds, their habitats, and the natural world.

Environment
11
Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium

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…

Science & Tech
12
Alabama Bass Trail

To promote tourism and economic development in alabamato promote natural resource conservation

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUB: $31,762 · OtherFAIRHOPE POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH CLUBROTARY YOUTH: $18,042 · OtherROTARY YOUTHMISC CONTRIBUTIONS (ALL CONTRIBUTIONS 1000 OR UNDER): $17,713 · OtherMISC CONTRIBUTIONS (ALL CONTRIBUTIONS 1000 OR …BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MOBILE AREA COUNCIL: $16,137 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MOBILE AREA COUNCILIMPACT 100: $6,010 · OtherFRIENDS OF PERDIDO BAY INC: $5,000 · OtherMOBILE BAY SIERRA CLUB: $4,500 · OtherKAPPA LEAGUE: $4,500 · Other+18 more: $28,200 · Other+18 moreMobile Baykeeper Inc: $37,835 · EnvironmentMobile Baykeeper IncSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $35,374 · EnvironmentSouth Alabama Land Trust IncLEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $17,000 · EnvironmentLEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUSTDOG RIVER CLEARWATER REVIVAL: $15,000 · EnvironmentDOG RIVER CLEARWATER REVIVALALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,350 · Environment+5 more: $12,150 · Environment+5 moreRIVER DISCOVERY INC: $15,000 · HealthRIVER DIS…The Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast Inc: $10,000 · HealthThe Excep…REDSIDE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureMobile Symphony Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureEASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $350 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 · EducationBAYSIDE ACADEMY INC: $2,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationBALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentRUFF WILSON YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentFeeding the Gulf Coast: $5,250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$131,864Environment$123,709Health$27,000Arts & Culture$14,350Education$8,500Youth Development$7,500Food & Nutrition$5,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc: $37,835 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $35,374 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $17,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRIVER DISCOVERY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetDOG RIVER CLEARWATER REVIVAL: $15,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HALSTEAD INC: $11,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAlabama Rivers Alliance Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc: $2,850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRUFF WILSON YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS LITERACY SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMobile Symphony Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAYSIDE ACADEMY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDSIDE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD ALABAMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC: $350 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Daniel Foundation…J L Bedsole Foundatio…Impact 100 Baldwin Co…Mapp Family FoundationLillian C McGowin Fou…Rc Craft Family Found…The Robert and Joanna…Snook FoundationCd Helen and Jeff Gla…Baldwin County Electr…The Sybil and White S…Mw Smith Jr Foundation
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008?

    Find your warmest path to Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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