· Community foundation
Walker Area Community Foundation Inc
To serve as a nonprofit dedicated to the nurture and advancement of the community through forming and preserving charitable capital, and using the proceeds of that capital to better the community as a whole.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITEUS INC | $700,000 |
| HARTT INC | $655,170 |
| RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES (RUFF) | $582,065 |
| THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY | $410,000 |
| KING'S HOME | $350,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER | $329,162 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $303,002 |
| BEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $252,000 |
| FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $242,888 |
| BACKYARD BLESSINGS | $217,263 |
| SC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE CHURCH | $159,800 |
| WALKER COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $130,170 |
| WALKER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $130,002 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JASPER | $125,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 19 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- HIHARTT INC4× · 2022–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +275% · 100% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +211% · 75% of their budget
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +87%
Funded once
- WCWINSTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $158k · revenue -77%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $97k
- ALAWAKENING LIFE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $86k
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.
Social services
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
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.
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.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Possible and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 212 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HARTT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITEUS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds JASPER AREA FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEAL Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER COUNTY COMMUNITY AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WALKER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE EDUCATIONAL PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS PLAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WALKER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc
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 Walker Area Community Foundation 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.
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