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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.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MCommunity Improvement$68kCrime & Legal$60kHealth$37kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$18kPhilanthropy$16kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $74,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$74,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I3 ACADEMY - CONSTRUCTION EXPENSES$74,600
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $15k → 16%GIRLS ON THE RUN: $8k → 10%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$2.1M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+38%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • IA
    I3 ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×81
  • CH
    Christ Health Center Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $37k · revenue +60%
  • OH
    OPERATION HOPE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEFFERSON CO DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • IA
    IGNITE ALABAMAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • CS
    Christian Service Mission Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +19%
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
The Birmingham Foundation
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2
Urban Impact Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
3
Birmingham Promise Inc

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

Education
4
Innovation Depot Inc

To incubate and accelerate tech & bio-focued, high growth business by providing teams with a proven blueprint for success, support in strategic areas, and access to an inclusive and supportive community. we add value by being a catalyst…

—
5
Breakthrough Birmingham

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.

Education
6
Build Up

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.

Youth Development
7
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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8
Momentum Alumnae Program Inc

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.

Education
9
Create Birmingham

To support workforce development, entrepreneurial ventures and job growth in non-profit and commercial creative industries.

Philanthropy
10
Bama Builds (formerly Bama Works Fund)

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…

Education
11
Innovate Birmingham

Innovate birmingham is a nonprofit organization working to promote economic mobility and fill the tech talent gap in central alabama.

Employment
12
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birmingham Education Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

I3 ACADEMY: $1,142,540 · EducationI3 ACADEMYJames Rushton I Foundation: $181,680 · EducationJames Rushton I Foundation+2 more: $15,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION: $618,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM BOARD OF EDUCATIONJEFFERSON CO DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: $60,000 · OtherJEFFERSON CO DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICEOPERATION HOPE INC: $34,175 · OtherDESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO: $30,000 · Other+3 more: $35,000 · OtherChrist Health Center Inc: $36,783 · HealthIGNITE ALABAMA: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Care Development Network: $10,000 · Community ImprovementChristian Service Mission Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesGirls on the Run Birmingham: $7,500 · Human ServicesREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $11,250 · PhilanthropyEmily Bayless Graham Charitable Trust Courtney McGrath Spangler & T McGrath: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,339,220Other$777,175Health$36,783Community Improvement$25,000Human Services$22,500Arts & Culture$19,000Philanthropy$16,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetI3 ACADEMY: $1,142,540 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetJames Rushton I Foundation: $181,680 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetChrist Health Center Inc: $36,783 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $34,175 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIGNITE ALABAMA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Care Development Network: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BIRMING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGirls on the Run Birmingham: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmily Bayless Graham Charitable Trust Courtney McGrath Spangler & T McGrath: $5,000 over 1y, 19% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Mike and Gillian Good…Campbell Estelle S Ch…The Daniel Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Protective Life Found…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Hill Crest Foundation…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Natl Christian Charit…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Woodlawn United Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodlawn United Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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