· Public charity
United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc
To improve the quality of life in the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $601,949 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $895,414 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $293,465 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
- Under $10k6 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $499k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS | $56,058 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $37,216 |
| VIA HEALTH FITNESS AND ENRICHMENT CENTER | $37,117 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $36,567 |
| HOME OF GRACE FOR WOMEN | $35,186 |
| PENELOPE HOUSE | $32,531 |
| FEEDING THE GULF COAST | $31,040 |
| THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $28,446 |
| GOODWILL GULF COAST | $22,821 |
| MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME | $21,014 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $19,696 |
| GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES | $19,160 |
| THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABMAA (FKA EDUC CTR FOR INDEPENDENCE) | $18,107 |
| HOUSING FIRST | $17,741 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $17,624 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- FCFamily Counseling Center of Mobile Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $784k · revenue +62%
- VHVictory Health Partners Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $696k · revenue +19%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA8× · 2018–2025 · $601k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MAMobile Area Education Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +569%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BALDWIN COUNTY INCone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +7%
- YOYMCA of South Alabama Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +36%
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.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.
Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
Social services
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for All Gulf Coast and the most unlike its peers is Victory Health Partners Inc. 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 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 49 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 Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Home of Grace For Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds GULF REGIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR ALL GULF COAST ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of Montgomery ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds CRITTENTON YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COASTAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA MOBILE ↗
- Who funds AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CLARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
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: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Hyman Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Dog Hill Foundation · Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn · Skyros Benevolent Society
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 United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc 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.