How much did ALABAMA FORWARD grant in FY2024?

ALABAMA FORWARD reported 25 grants totaling $1,029,387 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ALABAMA FORWARD based?

ALABAMA FORWARD is based in AL.

ALABAMA FORWARD

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· Public charity

ALABAMA FORWARD

ALABAMA FORWARD is a 501(c)(3) civic engagement coordinating table committed to advancing freedom movement and progressive, solution-oriented policy among a coalition of organizational partners, in order for every alabamian to engage in the democratic process.

$1.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$140k

Largest

01What you fund

0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Community Improvement$474kEnvironment$232kEducation$229kHuman Services$227kPhilanthropy$139kHousing & Shelter$133kReligion$117kCivil Rights$111kPublic Benefit$106kOther$1.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

summerpipeline fellowshipfellowship fellowfellow stipendvoter subgrantmapping fairfair districting

2022

midterm electionelection votervoter mobilizationmobilization effortsvoterstrategic planningplanning stipendeffortsvoter strategic

2023

meeting traveltravel stipendmember buildingbuilding subgrantmember subgrantstipend membersubgrant member

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k17 grants · $503k
$50k–250k7 grants · $512k

$30,650

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

TRANSFORM ALABAMA$139,606
GASP$70,500
NAACP ALABAMA$67,675
HOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT$61,750
ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$61,000
PROJECT SAY SOMETHING$60,000
ALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE$51,000
UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR$49,430
SOUTH ALABAMA BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE$46,000
BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$46,000
AKEEP$40,000
ALABAMA RIVERS ALLIANCE$33,500
METRO MONTGOMERY COUNTY NAACP$30,650
SWEET ALABAMA$30,600
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY$30,500

02The need

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 (FY23–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 60% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 23 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%

+290%

Still filing today

74%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

HO
HOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT
4× · 2021–2024 · $216k · revenue +254%
HI
HISPANIC INTEREST COALITION OF ALABAMA
4× · 2021–2024 · $197k · revenue +145%
AJ
ALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE
4× · 2021–2024 · $168k · revenue +45%

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +270%
SA
SOUTH ALABAMA BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE (FISCAL SPONSOR THE DUBOIS INSTITUT
one grant, 2022 · $38k
AB
ALABAMA BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE (FISCAL SPONSOR FRIENDS OF WEST END)
one grant, 2022 · $35k

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.

Central Alabama Works

To recruit, train, and empower a highly skilled workforce driven by business and industry needs and to be the competitive advantage for alabama's economic growth.

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Alabama Asset Building Coalition

The Mission of the Alabama Asset Building Coalition is to promote financial stability and self- sufficiency for low wealth individuals and families.

Human Services

The Alabama Conference of Black Mayors

To implement programs that empower communities and increase the quality of life of alabama residents

Arts & Culture

Alabama Association of Nonprofits

To strengthen the capacity of alabama's nonprofit sector through professional development, advocacy, and management support, all resulting in better communities and a stronger alabama.

Human Services

University of Alabama Alumni Association

To promote and encourage interest in the university of alabama through publications, reunions, and other activities.

Education

Alabama Audubon

Promote conservation and greater knowledge of birds, their habitat and the natural world.

Environment

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Museum and education institute to enlighten each generation about civil and human rights by exploring our common past and working together in the present to build a better future.

Philanthropy

Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal

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.

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Birmingham Urban League Inc

To assist all persons, particularly minorities and the economicallydisadvantaged, in the achievement of social and economic equality,implementing program services in the areas of employment education, housingand youth services

Human Services

Alabama for Healthy Families

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

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Alabama Values

Alabama values is a communications hub seeking to amplify progressive voices and policies in alabama. our goal is to provide messenging and communications leadership and infrastructure to organizations and coalitions to build community…

Arts & Culture

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

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/36

the rest of the field

13%

9,402/73,949

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.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

23/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,395,583Community Improvement$473,908Environment$232,100Education$229,250Human Services$227,405Philanthropy$138,900Housing & Shelter$132,860

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

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.

Bvm Capacity Building Institute IncGA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Tides Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater · Alabama Alliance Network · Women's Foundation of Alabama · The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation

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 organisation ALABAMA FORWARD 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALABAMA DEMOCRACY CENTERSOMNA INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +51% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 631125716 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ALABAMA DEMOCRACY CENTERSOMNA INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Alabama Forward?

Find your warmest path to Alabama Forward through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALABAMA FORWARD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alabama Forward?

More from the funding graph

ALABAMA FORWARD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alabama Forward?

More from the funding graph