· Private foundation
Trinka Davis Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KATHARINE DAVIS FOUNDATION | $3,547,934 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC | $100,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL WOMEN VETERANS UNITED | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO VETERANS | $20,000 |
| YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 85% of Trinka Davis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +7%
- BZBirmingham Zoo Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +17%
- ASA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SDSan Diego Brain Injury Foundationone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
- WVWomen Veterans Interactive Incone grant, 2018 · $25k
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOISgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +107%
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.
Disabled american veterans of alabama, inc was organized as an association of men and women who were wounded, gassed, injured or disabled in the line of duty during time of war.
Just as you were broken down from your civilian lifestyle when joining the military, we assimilate ourselves as cadre to teach you how to reintegrate back into post-military life with the same support.
Priority veteran, inc. is engaged in providing supportive services to veterans and their families, primarily in the area of housing.
The Women Veterans Interactive Foundation connects, engages, and empowers Women Veterans with the tools and resources needed to achieve post-military success through financial assistance, workforce development resources, and community.
To empower and support veterans.
To enhance the quality of life for people living with hiv/aids, at risk, affected individuals, and the lgbtq community through outreach, age-appropriate prevention education, and supportive services
W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. In all our work, we strive to continually increase our…
Informational services to u.s. military veterans as to how and where to obtain veterans benefits within the government system.
We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them;…
The national veterans art museum fosters greater understanding of the real impact of war. the museum collects, preserves & exhibits art inspired by combat & created by veterans.
The Center for Veterans Issues, Inc provides housing and supportive services to help improve the quality of life for ALL Veterans, their families, and the communities in which they live and serve.
Warriors Center Memphis is dedicated to assisting men overcome issues related to substance abuse and/or homelessness. We meet the needs of men such as clothing, shelter, education, job training and rehabilitation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Safe Haven Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Katharine Davis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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 THE KATHARINE DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN VETERANS UNITED ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Brain Injury Foundation ↗
- Who funds Women Veterans Interactive Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND CONCUSSION ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
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: Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Stephens Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich 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 Trinka Davis Foundation 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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