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Alabama Arise

ALABAMA ARISE is a statewide, member-led organization advancing public policies to improve the lives of alabamians who are marginalized by poverty.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$208kFood & Nutrition$55kCrime & Legal$50kCivil Rights$40kPhilanthropy$15kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $120,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BETTER PLACE$50,000
ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$20,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION 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 (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 33%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE KINGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $20k → 33%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $15k → 33%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $10k → 33%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $10k → 33%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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 3 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$140k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TK
    THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +68%
  • GB
    Greater Birmingham Ministries
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +9%
  • BA
    BAY AREA WOMEN COALITION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +95% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • AA
    AIDS ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +36%
  • HA
    HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Alabama for Healthy Families

To advocate for and promote access to health care for all alabamians.

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2
Black Alabamians for Educational Options

Out mission is to equip, inform and empower Black families with information on accessing a high quality k-12 education

Education
3
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
4
Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

—
5
West Alabama Action Group Inc
Community Improvement
6
West Alabama Womens Center Inc

Free and sliding scale reproductive, maternal and sexual health clinic providing stigma-free, patient-centered care regardless of insurance, income, or documentation status. See Schedule O for full mission statement.

Health
7
The Alabama Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

To provide education, opportunities and support services in an effort to prevent teen pregnancy.

Human Services
8
The State of Black Arizona

The State of Black Arizona leads the production, synthesis, and socialization of actionable data and insights for all Arizonans, focusing on the Black community. We ensure that the factors leading to inequitable outcomes are identified,…

Human Services
9
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
10
West Alabama Aids Outreach Inc Five Horizons Health Services

Promote a healthy, compassionate, and educated community through medical care, prevention education, supportive services, advocacy, and research.

—
11
National Association to Advance Black Birth

combat the effects of structural racism within maternal and infoant health to advance black birth outcomes

Health
12
Faith in Action Alabama

Faith in action alabamas mission is to honor god by achieving systemic change through faith-based community organizing to create pathways of opportunity for all alabamians

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is No More Martyrs. 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

14 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AIDS ALABAMA INC: $75,000 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association …THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS …No More Martyrs: $10,000 · Human ServicesNo More MartyrsUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WOMEN OF COLORGreater Birmingham Ministries: $45,000 · OtherGreater Birmingham Minis…Alabama Institute for Social Justice: $20,000 · OtherAlabama Institute for So…BAMA KIDS INC: $10,000 · OtherBAMA KIDS INCVOICES for Alabama's Children: $7,500 · OtherVOICES for Alabama's Chi…A BETTER BALANCE INC: $50,000 · Social ScienceA BETTER BALANC…BAY AREA WOMEN COALITION INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementBAY AREA WOMEN …HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC AND IM…ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED: $15,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Health$90,000Human Services$75,000Other$82,500Social Science$50,000Community Improvement$50,000Civil Rights$15,000Philanthropy$15,000

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 budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBAY AREA WOMEN COALITION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetAlabama Institute for Social Justice: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAMA KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetVOICES for Alabama's Children: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Marguerite Casey Foun…The Daniel Foundation…Better Place Foundati…Alabama Power Foundat…Women's Foundation of…Alabama Civil Justice…The Black Belt Commun…Mike and Gillian Good…The Community Foundat…Alabama ForwardStrain FoundationSouthern Partners Fun…
Marguerite Casey FoundationWA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marguerite Casey Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Better Place Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Women's Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Forward · Strain Foundation · Southern Partners Fund 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 Alabama Arise funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alabama Arise. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 14 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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