Alabama · Public charity
Tum Tum Tree Foundation
To provide support to alabama children with chronic life-threatening or certain life-altering conditions by raising and providing funds to other nonprofit organizations.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $479k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Tum Tum Tree Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $1.2M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $975k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $770k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $875k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $815k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $799k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $653k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Moments | $1,851,000 | 9 | 28% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $1,771,700 | 9 | 0% |
| The Red Barn | $1,052,750 | 9 | 15% |
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $898,000 | 9 | 4% |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $405,422 | 8 | n/a |
| Angel Pillowcases Inc | $270,000 | 9 | 49% |
| Service Dogs Alabama Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Special Equestrians Inc | $195,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $185,000 | 6 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Moments | $1,851,000 | 9 | 28% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $1,771,700 | 9 | 0% |
| The Red Barn | $1,052,750 | 9 | 15% |
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $898,000 | 9 | 4% |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $405,422 | 8 | n/a |
| Angel Pillowcases Inc | $270,000 | 9 | 49% |
| Service Dogs Alabama Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Special Equestrians Inc | $195,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $185,000 | 6 | 3% |
| National Ambucs Inc | $163,740 | 5 | 31% |
| Libbys Friends | $135,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Ronald McDonald House Alabama Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kid One Transport System Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Lulu Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| More Than 4 Athletics | $20,000 | 2 | 91% |
| Tipping Point Community | $16,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Christopher Kids | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Glenwood Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jones Valley Urban Farm | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Uab Research Foundation | $2,400 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Tum Tum Tree Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation
How this is measured
About Tum Tum Tree Foundation
- How much does Tum Tum Tree Foundation give?
- Tum Tum Tree Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $1,165,000, out of $1,205,002 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tum Tum Tree Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%), Philanthropy (0%), Employment (0%).
- Who are Tum Tum Tree Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Magic Moments ($1.9M), The Children's Hospital of Alabama ($1.8M), The Red Barn ($1.1M).
- Does Tum Tum Tree Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tum Tum Tree Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Tum Tum Tree Foundation based?
- Tum Tum Tree Foundation is based in AL.
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