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Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$139kEducation$91kHealth$90kScience & Tech$81kEnvironment$42kReligion$28kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$889k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$9,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMA$7,500
HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION$7,500
LEADERSHIP ALABAMA$5,000
HUNTSVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN$5,000
ASCTE FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$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
UNITED WAY OF MADISON COUNTY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION: $1k → 14%ENABLE MADISON COUNTY: $4k → 11%CASA OF MADISON COUNTY: $4k → 11%CASA OF MADISON COUNTY: $3k → 11%ENABLE MADISON COUNTY: $3k → 11%CASA OF MADISON COUNTY: $2k → 11%CASA OF MADISON COUNTY: $1k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $2k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $1k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $750 → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $700 → 11%US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%THE CARE CENTER: $1k → 11%TRIDEUM FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%HUNTSVILLE MARGARITA SOCIETY: $150 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$511k · 41 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
58

Total granted

$511k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+14%

Still filing today

49%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +74%
  • HF
    HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +72%
  • AF
    ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +351%

Funded once

  • BC
    BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AP
    ARAB PRIMARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Alabama Council of Emergency Medical Services Inc

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…

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3
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
4
Conservation Al Foundation Inc

To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.

Education
5
The University Foundation

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.

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6
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
7
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

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.

Health
8
Uab Educational Foundation

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.

Education
9
Huntsville Emergency Medical Services Inc

To provide emergency medical services to the general public and contract ambulance services.

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10
Central Alabama Works

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.

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11
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
12
Alabama Higher Education Association D/B/a Higher Education Partnership

To advocate the importance of higher education in bettering the lives of people in alabama.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baron Critical Weather Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER: $26,100 · OtherUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTERNATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMA: $22,500 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMAST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $22,400 · OtherST MICHAEL'S CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $20,382 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST VINCENT DE PAUL: $19,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE: $18,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLEHUNTSVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $13,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $12,500 · OtherLEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC: $8,500 · Other+62 more: $84,160 · Other+62 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $89,626 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL A…United Way of Madison County Inc: $27,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Madison C…+2 more: $600 · PhilanthropyHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $47,150 · EducationHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATI…ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationASCTE FOUNDATION FKA…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,300 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FO…LINDSAY LANE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,500 · Education+6 more: $1,850 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $39,250 · HealthAmerican H…THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $6,100 · HealthTHE HUNTSV…AIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE: $5,100 · HealthAIDS ACTIO…New Hope Children's Clinic: $3,300 · HealthNew Hope C…+5 more: $2,000 · HealthCARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY: $17,100 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $4,170 · Human ServicesUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesCONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe CARE Center: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $650 · Human ServicesMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE: $13,168 · Arts & CultureCOOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $250 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$247,042Philanthropy$117,726Education$104,800Health$55,750Human Services$26,420Arts & Culture$15,418Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $89,626 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $47,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $39,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Madison County Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY: $17,100 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE: $13,168 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINDSAY LANE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $5,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $4,170 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hope Children's Clinic: $3,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSVILLE-MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYBER HUNTSVILLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEN OF VALOR: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD SURGICAL INFECTION SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe CARE Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIAA FOUNDATION: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Huntsville Humane Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIDEUM FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImpact America: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuntsville Committee of 100 Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR C VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Orange Fish Corporation: $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALABAMA YOUTH BALLET THEATRE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Huntsville Margarita Society: $150 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF MARSHALL MEDICAL CENTERS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE 2 TEACH FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Daniel Foundation…The Jane K Lowe Chari…Alpha FoundationThe I3 Cares Foundati…Parker Griffith Famil…Stender Family Founda…John a Jurenko Et Al …The Propst FoundationThe Beard-Young Famil…Inspire & Achieve Cor…Ashburn Family Founda…
Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL51.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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