Quarterbacking Children's Health
Birmingham, AL · EIN 63-0288872. Reported 123 grants totalling $8,000,000 to 38 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 Quarterbacking Children's Health, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T700).
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 45% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 93% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
66 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $4,400,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Hospital of Alabama | Birminhgam, AL | $3,590,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $800,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Uab Institute for Arts in Medicine | Birmingham, AL | $244,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | Birmingham, AL | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kid One Transport System Inc | Birmingham, AL | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Woolley Institute for Spoken- Language and Education | Hoover, AL | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Smile a Mile | Birmingham, AL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Harbor Inc | Eclectic, AL | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mitchells Place Inc | Birmingham, AL | $146,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Exceptional Foundation | Birmingham, AL | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Ability Inc | Birmingham, AL | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Glenwood Inc | Birmingham, AL | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oasis Counseling for Women and Children | Birmingham, AL | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $115,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind Foundation Inc | Talladega, AL | $111,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kings Home | Chelsea, AL | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Ambucs Inc | Birmingham, AL | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Wellhouse | Odenville, AL | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hudsonalpha Foundation | Huntsville, AL | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Easter Seals Alabama Inc | Montgomery, AL | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Refuge 1212 Inc | Birmingham, AL | $94,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Breakthrough T1D | New York, NY | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Vincents Foundation of Alabama Inc | Birmingham, AL | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Grace House Ministries Incorporated | Fairfield, AL | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Methodist Childrens Home | Montgomery, AL | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Prescott House | Birmingham, AL | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Libbys Friends | Mountain Brk, AL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alabama Childrens Hospital Foundation | Birmingham, AL | $55,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Sports Medicine Institute Inc | Birmingham, AL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Impact America | Birmingham, AL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Preschool Partners | Mountain Brk, AL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hand-in-Paw Inc | Birmingham, AL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama | Birmingham, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Diabetes Education Services Inc | Hoover, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spring Valley School Foundation | Birmingham, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Oak Ranch Inc | Gadsden, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unless U | Vestavia Hls, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
32 of 38 (84%) 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.
- Children's of Alabama
Fulfill medical needs for children, whose needs would otherwise be unmet.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 31 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 29 | $1,750,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 28 | $1,850,000 | $27,500 |
| 2023 | 31 | $2,000,000 | $30,000 |
| 2024 | 35 | $2,400,000 | $36,000 |
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
99% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
40 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 90 grants totalling $585,380 to Quarterbacking Children's Health. That is 61% of the 66 funders we can see giving to it. Those 40 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
21 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Wheeler Memorial Foundation | Alabama | $183,590 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Edith S and James R Joyce Found | Missouri | $88,626 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marvin P Mcinish Charitable Trust | Alabama | $74,617 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brabston Charitable Trust | Missouri | $54,478 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Burton Family Foundation | Alabama | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo | Alabama | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation | Georgia | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dunn-French Foundation | Alabama | $13,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bettie Mae Pearson Fdn | Alabama | $11,020 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family | Alabama | $8,385 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 40.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $30,000 -- 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 Quarterbacking Children's Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 2019 4TH Avenue North, Birmingham, AL, 35203.
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