Which funders back the same organizations as Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.

Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

$13M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.6M

Largest

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.

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

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k28 grants · $587k
$50k–250k2 grants · $290k
$250k+9 grants · $12M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMRV RC&D COUNCIL	$1,630,446
ALA-TOM RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,344,446
COOSA VALLEY RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,325,946
WIREGRASS RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,305,446
MID-SOUTH RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,291,946
TOMBIGBEE RC&D	$1,287,446
NORTHWEST RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,285,946
GULF COAST RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,258,446
CAWACO RC&D COUNCIL INC	$1,230,946
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY	$240,462
ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONFERENCE	$50,000
CAMP MCDOWELL	$30,000
CRENSHAW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	$30,000
COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS SOUTHERN	$25,000
ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$60M · 37 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$60M

$893k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+15%

Still filing today

73%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

AM
ALABAMAS MTNS RIVERS AND VALLEYS RSC CONSERVATION AND DEVEL COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +182% · 86% of their budget
WR
Wiregrass RC&D COUNCIL
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +204% · 97% of their budget
MR
MID-SOUTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · 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

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.

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

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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Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment

Conservation Al Foundation Inc

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

Education

Alabama Audubon

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

Environment

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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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

Alabama Forestry Association Inc

Promote forest industry & forest products

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West Alabama Action Group Inc

Community Improvement

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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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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Wildlife Federation; 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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 92 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/61

Grantees still filing

40/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$45,009,825Other$8,264,453Community Improvement$6,434,522Youth Development$714,234Health$321,578Education$218,000Food & Nutrition$109,420

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

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.

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

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 Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home