· Public charity
Woodlawn United Inc
The foundation will serve as a catalyst and facilitator for the transformation and revitalization of the woodlawn community in birmingham, alabama into a vibrant and sustainable community in which its residents have an opportunity to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $74,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,700 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I3 ACADEMY - CONSTRUCTION EXPENSES | $74,600 |
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 (FY17–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IAI3 ACADEMY5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×71
- CHChrist Health Center Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $37k · revenue +60%
- OHOPERATION HOPE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- JCJEFFERSON CO DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICEone grant, 2017 · $60k
- CSChristian Service Mission Incone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +19%
- IAIGNITE ALABAMAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · 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.
Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships
Our mission is to develop, implement and drive creative community-based strategies and programs that enhance economic opportunity, builds inclusive and equitable ecosystems, facilitates historic preservation, and ensures a dynamic,…
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Empower youth to step out of generational poverty and tackle urban blight by earning the education, workforce skills, and multi-family homeownership to collectively lead long-term community revitalization.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
To support workforce development, entrepreneurial ventures and job growth in non-profit and commercial creative industries.
To be alabama's premier women's leadership program which empowers a diverse group of promising women to develop leadership skills that positively impact business, culture, and politics in alabama.
Beginning of Year- Serve as a Scholarship Granting Organization for low-to-moderate income children in the state of Alabama. However, the program went dormant during the 2022-2023 school year. We are now repurposing the program to serve…
The Flourish Alabama is a nonprofit organization dedicated to planting the seeds to help young artists bloom. We create and facilitate multi-medium programming and curriculum geared towards helping youth create collaborative art projects…
Urban Impact cultivates thriving communities, by creating access, opportunity, and lasting change. Our vision is that all people and every neighborhood are rooted and thriving in community.
Our mission is to empower people across Birmingham through community education and organizing, ensuring neighborhoods have direct and democratic control over local resources and municipal spending while holding our government accountable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birmingham Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is James Rushton I Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds James Rushton I Foundation ↗
- Who funds Christ Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds REV BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Care Development Network ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BIRMING ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING ENRICHMENT ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Birmingham ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emily Bayless Graham Charitable Trust Courtney McGrath Spangler & T McGrath ↗
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 · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Woodlawn United 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.