· Private foundation
Wendell R & Bonnie M Glassco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of WENDELL R & BONNIE M GLASSCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUNTERSVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $91,682 |
| BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH | $43,141 |
| MARSHALL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| ALBERTVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,841 |
| NOT ALONE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $7,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $4,550 |
| ALABAMA CHILDREN & FAMILY MINISTRIES | $2,250 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY HOMELESS MINITSTRIES | $1,000 |
| WHOLE BACKSTAGE | $1,000 |
| ALABAMA SCHOOL OF GOSPEL MUSIC | $1,000 |
| LOVE PACKAGES | $900 |
| BUDGET OFFERING 5122024 | $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 (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +106%
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY CHRISTMAS COALITION4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +63%
- HOHOSPICE OF MARSHALL COUNTY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY HOMELESSone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SSSNEAD STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $600
- SJST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $600
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.
Housing for the homeless
To promote the health and general welfare of the citizens of marshall and jackson counties and other board approved geographic areas and services by providing a comprehensive program of community based mental health services and facilities…
Hospice of marshall county, inc., is a not-for-profit agency that provides compassionate and professional end of life care respecting and honoring the choices of each individual patient. a comprehensive program addresses the physical,…
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Financial assistance to low income
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
Private school
Provides lodging, food, and care for elderly or infirm men.
Provide services to adults with intellectual disabilities and development.
To increase the ability of people to care for one another through organization.
To provide food and clothing to those in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marshall County Arc Inc 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.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NOT ALONE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY CHRISTMAS COALITION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARSHALL COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY HOMELESS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama School of Gospel Music Inc ↗
- Who funds WHOLE BACKSTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ARC INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY CHRISTIAN SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Wendell R & Bonnie M Glassco Charitable 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.