· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| CHIPS | $55,000 |
| SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS | $55,000 |
| LIBBY'S FRIENDS | $55,000 |
| CAMP SMILE A MILE | $55,000 |
| AMBUCS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +17%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tum Tum Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tum Tum Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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