Baptist Health Foundation Inc
Birmingham, AL · EIN 63-6062097. Reported 68 grants totalling $8,763,432 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Baptist Health Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E22J) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 88% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $13,750. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $2,012,757. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookwood Baptist Health System | Hoover, AL | $7,720,432 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Birmingham Metro Baptist Association | Birmingham, AL | $146,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Live Healhtsmart of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $77,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Samford University | Birmingham, AL | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Freedom Rain Inc | Birmingham, AL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community of Hope Health Clinic - a Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | Pelham, AL | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Forge Survivorship Center | Birmingham, AL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sav-a-Life Inc | Vestavia Hls, AL | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Vincents Foundation of Alabama Inc | Birmingham, AL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alabama Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | Birmingham, AL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oasis Counseling for Women and Children | Birmingham, AL | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Ability Inc | Birmingham, AL | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Foundry Ministries Inc | Bessemer, AL | $32,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Shelby Baptist Association | Columbiana, AL | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc of Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Church of the Reconciler United Methodist Church | Birmingham, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Collat Jewish Family Services | Mountain Brk, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sight Savers America Inc | Pelham, AL | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | S Yarmouth, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Safehouse of Shelby County Inc | Pelham, AL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mitchells Place Inc | Birmingham, AL | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cahaba Medical Care Foundation | Centreville, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cahaba Valley Health Care Incorp | Birmingham, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Backyard Blessings | Sumiton, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Church at Southside | Hoover, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace Klein Community Inc | Hoover, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laura Crandall Brown Foundation | Hoover, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prescott House | Birmingham, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rainbow Omega Inc | Eastaboga, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | Birmingham, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Grace Place | Bessemer, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vax 2 Stop Cancer | Birmingham, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magic City Harvest | Birmingham, AL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kid One Transport System Inc | Birmingham, AL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
21 of 37 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Brookwood Baptist Health System
SUPPORT FOR BBH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS PART OF ITS HEALTHCARE MINISTRY - Birmingham Metro Baptist Association
3RD FLOOR CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER BUILDOUT - St Vincents Foundation of Alabama
BREAST CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT & GENERAL SUPPORT - Uab
LIVE HEALTH START ALABAMA - Community of Hope Health
FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTIONER - Alabama Baptist Children's Homes
2024 MICROCURRENT NEUROFEEDBACK (MCN) TECHNICIAN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 37 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $1,889,458 | $944,729 |
| 2022 | 14 | $2,114,561 | $17,500 |
| 2023 | 22 | $2,375,257 | $13,750 |
| 2024 | 30 | $2,384,156 | $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
100% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $13,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alabama.
- 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 Baptist Health Foundation 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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 29 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1130 22ND St S Ste 3200, Birmingham, AL, 35205.
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