· Private foundation
Warren Family Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $657k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE JUNALUSKA ASSEMBLY | $155,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $121,000 |
| UAB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $71,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $60,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL AL | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| HIGHLANDS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CANTERBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ALTAMONT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WBHM | $25,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S FUND | $15,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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
Lake Junaluska Assembly Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $310k · revenue +38%- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama2× · 2017–2018 · $124k · revenue +27%
- AOALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL AL2× · 2017–2018 · $100k
Funded once
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +51%
- AKABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +136%
- RPRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +28%
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.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To turn out young people who are tireless workers, and who know how to work effectively; who are accurate scholars; who know the finer points of morals and practice them in their daily living; who are always courteous.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The appalachian state university foundation exists to support appalachian state university students, faculty, staff and community through the advancement of financial support, stewardship, growth of resources, and advocacy for the…
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 challenge and nurture academically capable students.
Webb's mission is to provide a dynamic learning community that nurtures and inspires our students and alumni to think boldly, mindfully, and creatively; act with honor and moral courage; lead with distinction; and serve with a generous…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Railroad Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 Lake Junaluska Assembly Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM 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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Dunn-French Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Warren 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.