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Virginia Stockham Ladd Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINLY HEFLIN UNIT | $7,500 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $6,250 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $6,125 |
| CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS | $6,000 |
| UAB SCHOOL OF NURSING | $5,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF ALABAMA | $4,000 |
| ST PETERS ANGLICAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| ARISE BIRMINGHAM | $4,000 |
| STANTON HEALTHCARE | $3,000 |
| THE LOVELADY CENTER | $3,000 |
| MYERS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $2,750 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,500 |
| GRACE ANGLICAN CHURCH | $2,375 |
| EMPOWER INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +66% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LHLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +72%
- DJDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +42%
- TGTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- TCTWIN CITY GARDEN CLUBone grant, 2024 · $3k
- BLBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +145%
- MAMARANATHA ACADEMY INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -9%
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 serve people, build community, pursue justice.
The winston-salem rescue mission, inc. is a christian, non-denominational service ministry, existing to help our hurting neighbors find hope and healing through the transforming gospel of jesus christ.
Primary purpose is to present jesus christ to the homeless, unemployed, and destitute community of chattanooga's inner city and around the world; to provide education which re-defines self worth according to biblical principles; to offer…
Calvary rescue mission is a haven for the homeless in memphis. for all time, it has been to reach out and minister to the needs of each person regardless of race, color, or creed. we furnish a clean shower, clothing, bed, along with the…
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
To be the body of christ in our community providing food, shelter, clothing and other basic needs to those are struggling and offer rehabilitative services in the name of jesus christ
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
The Organization exists to glorify God by proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ in underserved neighborhoods through home repair and leadership development.
Red mountain grace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated as a place of refuge for out-of-town patients and caregivers that are receiving extended medical treatment. our foundation is in christ, our heart is for birmingham.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 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.
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THREE HOTS & A COT ↗
- Who funds POWERS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Bridgeways Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Tiny Paws Pug Rescue ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Lowes Employee Relief Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Holle Family Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Stephens Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Faulkner Family Foundation · Dunn-French 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 Virginia Stockham Ladd Family 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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