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Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$41MScience & Tech$3.4MYouth Development$2.1MHealth$512kFood & Nutrition$292kRecreation & Sports$289kCommunity Improvement$226kEducation$198kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $357k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $336k
  • $250k+9 grants · $10M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMRV RC&D COUNCIL$1,455,820
TOMBIGBEE RC&D COUNCIL$1,175,640
MID-SOUTH RC&D COUNCIL$1,175,320
WIREGRASS RC&D COUNCIL$1,161,846
ALA-TOM RC&D COUNCIL$1,123,320
CAWACO RC&D COUNCIL$1,120,070
GULF COAST RC&D COUNCIL$1,072,381
COOSA VALLEY RC&D COUNCIL$1,061,665
NORTHWEST RC&D COUNCIL$1,052,320
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$186,346
SINGING RIVER TRAIL$50,000
ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM$50,000
TOWN OF COTTONWOOD$50,000
ALABAMENSE CHAPTER OF THE AZALEA SOCIETY$30,000
BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CURT'S CLOSET: $21k → 16%HOPE OUTDOORS: $11k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47M · 33 repeat orgs$986k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
29

Total granted

$47M
$703k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+27%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AM
    ALABAMAS MTNS RIVERS AND VALLEYS RSC CONSERVATION AND DEVEL COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +123% · 86% of their budget
  • WR
    Wiregrass RC&D COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +203% · 97% of their budget
  • MR
    MID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +266% · 95% of their budget

Funded once

  • SG
    SWEET GROWN ALABAMA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +404%
  • AW
    ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +34%
  • AF
    ALABAMA FARMERS AGRICULTURE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue ×93

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment
2
Alabama Forest Owners Association Inc

The business and purpose of this corporation shall be to promote, protect, and represent the interest of owners of forest lands in the state of Alabama; to make Alabama Forest Owners Association members the most knowledgeable forest…

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3
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
4
Conservation Al Foundation Inc

To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.

Education
5
Alabama Audubon

Alabama audubon's mission is to promote conservation and a greater knowledge of birds, their habitats, and the natural world.

Environment
6
Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc

The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.

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7
The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc

The land trust leads regional and community collaborations that plan, preserve and provide stewardship for green space in north alabama. our mission is to preserve and protect north alabama's scenic, historic, and ecological resources…

Environment
8
Alabama Forestry Association Inc

Promote forest industry & forest products

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9
West Alabama Action Group Inc
Community Improvement
10
Central Alabama Redevelopment Alliance Central Alabama Redevelopment Alliance

To increase economic development capacity for urban and rural communities, existing micro and small businesses, and community stakeholders by providing professional educational programs that create sustainability.

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11
Alabama Coastal Heritage Trust

Acquire, preserve, protect, restore, manage & improve alabama lands & water of ecological, scientific, scenic, wildlife or recreational significance. conduct, sponsor, and encourage, engage in ecological study & research. support…

Environment
12
Alabama State Parks Foundation

The alabama state parks foundation was formed in 2018 to raise dollars to supplement state funding of the alabama state parks. the foundation is led by a board of directors who seek to mobilize a statewide network of citizen…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Short the Squirrel Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLabor Union Benefit FundsCommunity Health CentersBirmingham Economic Develop…Social Justice and Communit…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsDisability Services Organiz…Education Advocacy and Supp…Professional & Trade Associ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr17%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%39%20–35yr12%47%35–55yr17%1%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
14%
3,156/22,707

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALABAMAS MTNS RIVERS AND VALLEYS RSC CONSERVATION AND DEVEL COUNCIL INC — $6,618,604 · EnvironmentALABAMAS MTNS RIVERS AND VALLEYS RSC CONSERVATION AND DEVEL COUNCIL INCWiregrass RC&D COUNCIL — $5,431,874 · EnvironmentWiregrass RC&D COUNCILCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $4,723,084 · EnvironmentCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCGULF COAST RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA — $4,688,652 · EnvironmentGULF COAST RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREANORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL — $4,684,236 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCILCOOSA VALLEY RC&D COUNCIL — $4,624,494 · EnvironmentCOOSA VALLEY RC&D COUNCILALA-TOM RC&D COUNCIL INC — $4,600,653 · EnvironmentALA-TOM RC&D COUNCIL INC+7 more — $241,606 · EnvironmentTOMBIGBEE RC&D COUNCIL — $5,032,483 · OtherTOMBIGBEE RC&D …+35 more — $1,413,345 · Other+35 moreMID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $4,970,313 · Community ImprovementMID-SOUTH RE…+6 more — $162,263 · Community ImprovementEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $376,772 · Youth DevelopmentALABAMA FARMERS AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAL FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentSMILE-A-MILE — $87,000 · HealthALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESCUE SQUADS INC — $69,927 · HealthALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC — $43,842 · HealthCAHABA MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION — $41,096 · HealthMAGIC MOMENTS — $37,213 · HealthSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · HealthSWEET GROWN ALABAMA INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationBLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP — $25,000 · EducationSHORT THE SQUIRREL INC — $23,000 · EducationALABAMA SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE NETWORK — $84,420 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$35,613,203Other$6,445,828Community Improvement$5,132,576Youth Development$448,772Health$296,578Education$178,000Food & Nutrition$109,420

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALABAMAS MTNS RIVERS AND VALLEYS RSC CONSERVATION AND DEVEL COUNCIL INC — $6,618,604 over 8y, 86% of budgetWiregrass RC&D COUNCIL — $5,431,874 over 8y, 97% of budgetMID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $4,970,313 over 8y, 95% of budgetCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $4,723,084 over 8y, 72% of budgetGULF COAST RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA — $4,688,652 over 8y, 95% of budgetNORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL — $4,684,236 over 8y, 97% of budgetCOOSA VALLEY RC&D COUNCIL — $4,624,494 over 8y, 94% of budgetALA-TOM RC&D COUNCIL INC — $4,600,653 over 8y, 98% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $376,772 over 3y, 15% of budgetASF FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $87,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetALABAMA SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE NETWORK — $84,420 over 4y, 14% of budgetALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESCUE SQUADS INC — $69,927 over 2y, 66% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA — $64,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBUCKMASTERS AMERICAN DEER FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetFOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSINGING RIVER TRAIL — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC — $43,842 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetYOUR-TOWN ALABAMA INC — $41,705 over 3y, 36% of budgetCAHABA MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION — $41,096 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS — $37,213 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC — $36,606 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFRESH AIR FAMILY INC — $34,927 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $33,258 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNational Association of RC&D Councils — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLEGACY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetALABAMA CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMARBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALABAMA SCENIC RIVER TRAIL — $25,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHORT THE SQUIRREL INC — $23,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetAL FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,972 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCURTS CLOSET — $20,550 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALABAMA BLACK BELT ADVENTURES ASSOCIATIO N — $18,050 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALABAMA BASS TRAIL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFITZPATRICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $13,611 over 1y, 10% of budgetMAIN STREET ALABAMA — $11,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOPE OUTDOORS INC — $10,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL OUTREACH AND PUBLIC SERVICES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $6,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alabama Power Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Protective Life Found…Ala-Tom RC&D Council …Alfa FoundationWalker Area Community…Mid-South Resource Co…Alabama Humanities Al…Tombigbee Resource Co…Hill Crest Foundation…Northwest Alabama Res…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL37× affinity18 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 · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc · Alfa Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc · Alabama Humanities Alliance · Tombigbee Resource Conservation and Development Council · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    20report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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