· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $1,165,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,205,002 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,002 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
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALABAMA CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER AND BLOOD DISORDERS | $200,000 |
| MAGIC MOMENTS | $175,000 |
| THE RED BARN FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $130,000 |
| CAMP SMILE A MILE | $55,000 |
| AMBUCS | $55,000 |
| LIBBY'S FRIENDS | $55,000 |
| SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS | $55,000 |
| CHIPS | $55,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA INC | $50,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| THE BELL CENTER | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMA | $30,000 |
| LULU STRONG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ANGEL PILLOWCASES INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +85% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- MMMAGIC MOMENTS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +94% · 28% of their budget
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +27%
- TRTHE RED BARN9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +91%
Funded once
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITYone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -1%
- JVJONES VALLEY URBAN FARMone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -39%
- TUTHE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +3%
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.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
To provide support to alabama children with chronic life-threatening or certain life-altering conditions by raising and providing funds to other nonprofit organizations.
To provide family and child-centered applied behavior analysis (aba) therapy for children with autism and other related disorders. we work with families to provide aba therapy in the home, community, at our support center, and (in special…
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
To provide treatment, therapy and scholarships for behavioral and biomedical interventions to children with autism and their families.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…
To provide an environment where children on the autistic spectrum can develop their potential academically, emotionally, socially, communicatively, physically and gain functional independence using programs and methods that are selected…
Wheelchairs 4 Kids is dedicated to improving the lives of children with physical disabilities. We provide wheelchairs, home and vehicle modifications as well as other assistive or therapeutic equipment at no charge to the families.
Our mission is to help children with autism and thier families reach their full potential by providing access to vital strategies of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to those who cant (or prefer not to) access them through traditional…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Service Dogs Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lulu Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL PILLOWCASES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds Libbys Friends ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LULU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN 4 ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER KIDS ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Tum Tum Tree 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.