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Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc

Resource conservation and development

$936k
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$819kCommunity Improvement$162kPublic Benefit$107kEnvironment$90kRecreation & Sports$82kArts & Culture$62kYouth Development$56kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 65 grants below total $746,559, the rows itemized in this filing. The $936,051 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $189,492 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $261k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $486k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$562k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS COUNTY COMMISSION$30,000
ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$30,000
MONROE COUNTY COMMISSION$27,630
WILCOX COUNTY COMMISSION$26,000
CITY OF THOMASVILLE$25,000
MONROE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT$23,904
TOWN OF GILBETOWN$20,000
WILCOX WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT$20,000
MARION MILITARY INSTITUTE$20,000
TOWN OF PINE APPLE$16,318
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SW ALABAMA$16,302
PINE HILL VFD$16,000
CLARKE COUNTY SOIL AND WATER$15,533
SELMA DALLAS HISTORIC PERSERVATION SOCIETY$15,080
ADULT TEEN CHALLENGE OF ALABAMA$15,000
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 (FY19–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%MOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS: $10k → 19%FAITH GROCERIES: $11k → 21%DEEP SOUTH FOOD ALLIANCE: $8k → 33%MOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS: $10k → 19%FAITH GROCERIES: $9k → 21%FAITH GROCERIES: $9k → 21%YMCA OF SELMA DALLAS COUNTY: $10k → 33%HOPE OUTDOORS: $11k → 17%FAITH GROCERIES: $5k → 21%FAITH GROCERIES: $5k → 21%DALLAS COUNTY SYSTEM OF SERVICES: $7k → 33%CLARKE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 42 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
58

Total granted

$1.4M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+26%

Still filing today

26%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • MM
    Marion Military Institute Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +17%
  • BC
    BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • FA
    F A I T H GROCERIES
    5× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +2% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CF
    Cahaba Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +37% · 31% of their budget
  • SD
    SELMA DALLAS COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
West Alabama Action Group Inc
Community Improvement
3
Shelby County Historical Society

Preserve the history of shelby county al

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4
United Way of Monroe County

Collect & distribute funds to approved agencies in monroe county alabama

Philanthropy
5
Walker County Community Agency Inc

The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al

—
6
Mobile County Pals

Provide services and support to prevent cruelty and provide shelter to animals

Animals
7
Stapleton Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

The mission of the stapleton fire department is to provide protection of life, property and environment from fires and other emergencies for the community of stapleton.

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8
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
—
9
Central Alabama Works

To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.

—
10
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
—
11
Department of Alabama Amvets Inc

Assistance to veterans especially in alabama

Public Benefit
12
Friends of the Gadsden County Public Library Inc
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blackbelt Regional Child Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Arsenal Place Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 138 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
23/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $154,352 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYALABAMA-TOMBIGBEE REGIONAL COMMISSION: $90,000 · Other+110 more: $1,618,890 · Other+110 moreMarion Military Institute Foundation: $145,282 · EducationMarion Mili…BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL: $49,718 · EducationBREAKTHROUG…THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $23,187 · EducationTHE LIBERTY…SPARTA ACADEMY: $11,865 · Education+4 more: $21,573 · Education+4 moreF A I T H GROCERIES: $39,543 · Human ServicesMOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIAN COMMISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE OUTDOORS INC: $10,876 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SELMA ALABAMA: $10,000 · Human ServicesCLARKE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT FDT INC: $9,737 · Human ServicesMOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $8,000 · Human ServicesThe Dallas County System of Services Inc: $6,580 · Human ServicesCentral Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center: $26,058 · Crime & LegalCAMDEN COMMUNITY YOUTH CTR INC: $16,098 · Crime & LegalBLACKBELT WOMEN RISING INC: $6,900 · Crime & LegalBAMA KIDS INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $30,000 · AnimalsALL 4 PAWS: $24,456 · AnimalsCahaba Foundation Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementEVERGREEN-CONECUH CHAMBER OF COMMER: $6,671 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET ALABAMA: $5,871 · Community ImprovementMain Street Marion Inc: $5,024 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $31,751 · Youth Development
Other$1,863,242Education$251,625Human Services$104,736Crime & Legal$55,056Animals$54,456Community Improvement$47,566Youth Development$31,751

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarion Military Institute Foundation: $145,282 over 5y, 11% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL: $49,718 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetF A I T H GROCERIES: $39,543 over 5y, 27% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $31,751 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCahaba Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCentral Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center: $26,058 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetALL 4 PAWS: $24,456 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $23,187 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSELMA DALLAS COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $20,536 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIAN COMMISSION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSELMA AREA FOOD BANK: $17,513 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCAMDEN COMMUNITY YOUTH CTR INC: $16,098 over 2y, 20% of budgetRebuilding Together of South AL: $13,159 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetArsenal Place Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetSPARTA ACADEMY: $11,865 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPRESTWICK COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $11,123 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOPE OUTDOORS INC: $10,876 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SELMA ALABAMA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT FDT INC: $9,737 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $7,080 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLACKBELT WOMEN RISING INC: $6,900 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBLACKBELT REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $6,325 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $6,250 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHOCTAW COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBAMA KIDS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMAIN STREET ALABAMA: $5,871 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST STEPHENS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $5,456 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,363 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA: $5,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Community Services of Selma and Dallas County Inc: $5,187 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds Marion Military Institute Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds F A I T H GROCERIES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Cahaba Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center ↗
  • Who funds ALL 4 PAWS ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SELMA DALLAS COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIAN COMMISSION ↗

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.

Alabama Power Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Mike and Gillian Good…Alabama Association o…The Black Belt Commun…Alabama Humanities Al…International Paper C…Alfa FoundationWalker Area Community…Weaver-Parrish Charit…The Community Foundat…Share Our Strength
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL36.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · Alabama Humanities Alliance · International Paper Company Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Weaver-Parrish Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Share Our Strength

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 Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 138 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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