· Private foundation
Wallace E Kirkpatrick 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $9,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMA | $7,500 |
| HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| ASCTE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ENABLE MADISON COUNTY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $2,500 |
| US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA | $2,500 |
| HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $2,488 |
| BURRITT MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +74%- HFHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +72%
- AFASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +351%
Funded once
- SMST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- APARAB PRIMARY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BCBARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 survey, evaluate, and provide a method for common action by the regional ems agencies in furthering the development and improvement of emergency medical care to the citizens of alabama including coordination of activities and projects…
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
To provide emergency medical services to the general public and contract ambulance services.
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.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To advocate the importance of higher education in bettering the lives of people in alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baron Critical Weather Institute and the most unlike its peers is Cook Museum of Natural Science. 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 25 years old; the field is 15. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 106 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Madison County Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds LINDSAY LANE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds New Hope Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE-MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY 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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Alpha Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · Stender Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Inspire & Achieve Corporation · Ashburn Family 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 Wallace E Kirkpatrick 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.