Alabama · Public charity
Alabama Forward
ALABAMA FORWARD is a state-based 501 (c) (3) civic engagement coordinating table committed to advancing movement towards greater freedom and progressive, solution-oriented policy among a diverse coalition of alabama-based partner organizations, so that every alabamian can engage in the democratic process. In pursuit of this mission,…
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,650
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $139,606
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 26
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Alabama Forward funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $978k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $735k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $697k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $282k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transform Alabama | $283,667 | 3 | 71% |
| Hometown Organizing Project | $215,661 | 4 | 13% |
| Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama | $196,747 | 4 | 4% |
| Alabama Justice Initiative | $168,250 | 4 | 18% |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $167,125 | 4 | n/a |
| Gasp | $146,100 | 3 | 9% |
| Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama | $132,860 | 3 | 12% |
| United Women of Color | $122,780 | 3 | 24% |
| Faith in Action Alabama | $117,070 | 3 | 13% |
| Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice | $109,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transform Alabama | $283,667 | 3 | 71% |
| Hometown Organizing Project | $215,661 | 4 | 13% |
| Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama | $196,747 | 4 | 4% |
| Alabama Justice Initiative | $168,250 | 4 | 18% |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $167,125 | 4 | n/a |
| Gasp | $146,100 | 3 | 9% |
| Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama | $132,860 | 3 | 12% |
| United Women of Color | $122,780 | 3 | 24% |
| Faith in Action Alabama | $117,070 | 3 | 13% |
| Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice | $109,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Greater Birmingham Ministries | $87,675 | 3 | 3% |
| Project Say Something | $81,000 | 2 | 16% |
| ALIEEP / Alabama International Education & Economic Partnership | $77,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc | $77,000 | 4 | 5% |
| The Ordinary People Society Tops | $65,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Bay Area Women Coalition Inc | $61,500 | 2 | 16% |
| Alabama Arise | $60,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Dubois Institute for Entrepreneurship | $46,000 | 1 | 8% |
| National Coalition on Black Civic Partic | $45,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc | $43,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metro Montgomery County NAACP | $40,650 | 2 | n/a |
| Fortitude Foundation | $39,450 | 2 | n/a |
| Alabama Possible | $39,125 | 3 | 3% |
| South Alabama Black Women's Roundtable (Fiscal Sponsor the Dubois Institut | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Church Women United | $37,150 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of West-End | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Omega Men of North Alabama Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Stand Up Mobile a Blueprint for US | $30,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Jobs to Move America | $22,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Hale County Community Enrichment Society Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Health and Wellness Educational Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union Theological Seminary | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meow Cares | $11,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Awareness and Prevention Programs | $9,646 | 1 | n/a |
| Energy Alabama | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Alabama Forward supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Alabama Alliance Network · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Alabama Forward
- How much does Alabama Forward give?
- Alabama Forward reported 25 grants totaling $1,029,387 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Alabama Forward fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (43%), Community Improvement (18%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Alabama Forward's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Transform Alabama ($284k), Hometown Organizing Project ($216k), Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama ($197k).
- Does Alabama Forward fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alabama Forward?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Alabama Forward based?
- Alabama Forward is based in AL.
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