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B Charitable Inc

Birmingham, AL · EIN 85-2280049. Reported 53 grants totalling $1,071,164 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

43organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,071,164granted, 2021-2024
41%of grantees funded again the next year
39%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For B Charitable Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 39% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $5,500 and $15,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $244,681. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cahaba Park Church PcaBirmingham, AL$418,181332024
Mochary Foundation IncMontclair, NJ$85,000222023
Cornerstone Schools of Alabama IncBirmingham, AL$40,000222024
Redeemer Community Church$38,400112024
Mountain Brook Community Church$35,000112024
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationConcord, NH$33,457112023
Triumph of HopeMc Calla, AL$25,000112024
Cathedral Church of the AdventBirmingham, AL$23,000222024
Mwana Villages US IncMountain Brk, AL$22,000222024
Clerestory IncHoover, AL$20,025112023
Evangelical Alliance MissionAurora, IL$20,000222024
Third Lens CorporationAtlanta, GA$20,000112024
Unbound Grace MinistriesVestavia Hls, AL$18,000222024
Oak Tree MinistriesBirmingham, AL$17,000112023
First Presbyterian ChurchPanama City, FL$15,500112024
Eart Path Education$15,000112024
Refuge 1212 IncBirmingham, AL$15,000112024
The WellhouseOdenville, AL$15,000112023
California Polytechnic State UniverSan Luis Obispo, CA$14,000112023
United Way of Central Alabama IncBirmingham, AL$13,515222023
Brookwood Baptist Church$12,041112024
Not Forgotten IncBirmingham, AL$10,975112024
Big Oak Ranch IncGadsden, AL$10,025222024
African Childrens Mission IncBirmingham, AL$10,000112024
Alabama Baptist Childrens Home and Family MinistriesBirmingham, AL$10,000112024
Boys & Girls Club of Central AlabamaBirmingham, AL$10,000112023
Magic City WoodworksBirmingham, AL$10,000112024
Urban HopeFairfield, AL$10,000112024
Taylor Road Baptist Church$8,800112024
Center for Executive Leadership IncBirmingham, AL$7,500112023
Blount County Education Foundation IncOneonta, AL$7,000112023
Agape of Central Alabama IncMontgomery, AL$6,000112024
Will King Foundation IncJacksonville, FL$5,500112024
Mobile Medical Disaster Relief IncHendersonvlle, TN$5,245112024
Auburn University FoundationAuburn, AL$5,000112024
Bigtime MinistriesBirmingham, AL$5,000112021
Common Thread CommunityHomewood, AL$5,000112024
Canterbury UMC$5,000112024
First Baptist of DublinDublin, GA$5,000112024
Kings HomeChelsea, AL$5,000112024
Santa Cruz Waldorf School AssnSanta Cruz, CA$5,000112024
The Foundry Ministries IncBessemer, AL$5,000112024
United We Pray$5,000112024

9 of 43 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
11 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Religion
3 orgs
Education
3 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20214$99,990$19,995
202317$371,532$11,000
202432$599,642$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

78% of its giving went to organizations in Alabama. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Alabama
$743K
New Jersey
$85K
New Hampshire
$33K
Georgia
$25K
Florida
$21K
Illinois
$20K
California
$19K
Tennessee
$5K

Down to the city

Birmingham, AL
$590K
Montclair, NJ
$85K
Concord, NH
$33K
Mc Calla, AL
$25K
Mountain Brk, AL
$22K
Hoover, AL
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund29 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program20 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Greater18 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc18 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alabama.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from B Charitable Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 412 Cliff Place, Birmingham, AL, 35209.

EIN 85-2280049 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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