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Alabama Humanities Alliance

To connect alabamians: to tell stories and to listen, to share ideas and to learn to link the past to the present, and to seek a deeper understanding of our humanity.

$364k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEducation$116kEnvironment$22kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$6kInternational$5k
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $307,489, the rows itemized in this filing. The $363,511 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,022 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $245k
$10,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA$25,010
TROY UNIVERSITY$21,544
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$16,929
MOBILE MEDICAL MUSEUM$16,150
TENNESSEE VALLEY ROCKET CITY PRIDE$15,000
THE UNIVERISTY OF ALABAMA$14,918
THE UNIVERISTY OF WEST ALABAMA$14,520
THE FLOURISH ALABAMA$14,500
TRI-STATE EXPO JUNETEENTH AFFAIR$12,397
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA$12,269
KIDS IN BIRMINGHAM 1963$11,000
CREATE BIRMINGHAM$10,250
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA INC$10,250
HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION$10,000
VALLEY ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WIREGRASS BLUES SOCIETY: $9k → 21%TRI-STATE EXPO JUNETEENTH AFFAIR: $12k → 17%Wiregrass Blues Society: $8k → 21%Village of Promise: $8k → 11%US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER: $10k → 11%Levite Jewish Community Cener: $7k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 16%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 56 repeat orgs$954k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
99

Total granted

$1.6M
$832k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+7%

Still filing today

57%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • VP
    VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • AE
    Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority
    5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +91%
  • TL
    THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $41k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • SD
    SELMA DALLAS COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • TO
    Town of Courtland - Courtland Public Library
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • ET
    EMPOWERING THE SOUTHERN ROOTS ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Guntersvill Historical Society Inc

Non Profit Museum

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2
Friends of the Alabama Governors Mansion Inc

To Preserve the Governors Mansion

Arts & Culture
3
Spruce Pine Historical Society

Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.

Arts & Culture
4
Alabama Bicentennial Commission Foundation Inc

The foundation's missionis to provide assistance to the alabama bicentennial commission, which supports, created and executes events and activities that commemorate the stories of alabama's people, places and path to statehood.

Arts & Culture
5
Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc

To educate, preserve and mark the historic contributions of African-Americans in Mobile.

Arts & Culture
6
Sumter Museum

Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets

Arts & Culture
7
Alabama Historical Association

Encourage and promote study of alabama history

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8
Shelby County Historical Society

The education of the public on Shelby County history.

Arts & Culture
9
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
10
North Alabama Railroad Museum

Preserving and demonstrating railroad history

Arts & Culture
11
Alabama Historic Irownworks Commission

To preserve and promote the history of the ironworks industry in alabama and to operate two parks, which includes a historical museum.

Arts & Culture
12
Tennessee River Museum

To present and promote the historical aspect of the local river from pre-history until the present day

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery; the most unlike its peers is The Wallace Center for Arts and. 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

105 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. 105 of the 168 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/105
Grantees still filing
72/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TROY UNIVERSITY: $116,128 · OtherTROY UNIVERSITYAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $93,359 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $78,256 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $67,026 · Other+96 more: $1,217,995 · Other+96 moreAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority: $41,500 · Arts & CultureAlabama Education Televisi…CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL S…INVISIBLE HISTORIES: $33,910 · Arts & CultureINVISIBLE HISTORIESHISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $31,355 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY RESTORATION FUND: $29,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC: $28,300 · Arts & CultureTHE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE: $24,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF EAST ALABAMA INC: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+35 more: $344,007 · Arts & Culture+35 moreTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $41,325 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $30,660 · EducationTUSKEGEE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE CITIZENSHIP TRUST: $15,000 · EducationSamford University: $14,367 · EducationAPT Foundation: $14,000 · EducationPROJECT THREADWAYS INC: $13,478 · EducationSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $12,500 · EducationGADSDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNewbern Library Inc: $7,000 · Education+2 more: $10,037 · EducationVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $49,688 · Recreation & SportsRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Recreation & SportsWIREGRASS BLUES SOCIETY: $16,500 · Human ServicesLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,050 · Human ServicesTri-State Expo Juneteenth Affairs: $12,397 · Human ServicesUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,885 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC: $13,477 · EnvironmentAlabama Rivers Alliance Inc: $9,000 · EnvironmentFREEDOM FARM AZUL: $8,100 · EnvironmentCREATE BIRMINGHAM: $10,250 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN IMPACT INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,572,764Arts & Culture$594,572Education$193,367Recreation & Sports$63,188Human Services$59,332Environment$30,577Philanthropy$25,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $49,688 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority: $41,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION: $41,325 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetLANDMARKS FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY: $39,440 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetINVISIBLE HISTORIES: $33,910 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetHISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $31,355 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $30,660 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHISTORIC BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY RESTORATION FUND: $29,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC: $28,300 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetJESSE OWENS MEMORIAL PARK: $25,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetTUSKEGEE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMOBILE MEDICAL MUSEUM: $24,857 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE: $24,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF EAST ALABAMA INC: $22,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetDOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHELEN KELLER BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetLEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE WALLACE CENTER FOR ARTS AND: $16,750 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWIREGRASS BLUES SOCIETY: $16,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $16,184 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSELMA DALLAS COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetALICEVILLE MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHISTORIC TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH- SELMA AL LEGACY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetAUTAUGA COUNTY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE CITIZENSHIP TRUST: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUGO BLACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetHistoric Mobile Preservation Society Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFLOURISH ALABAMA: $14,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSamford University: $14,367 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLearn to Read Council of Athens & L: $14,200 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetAPT Foundation: $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL HOOK-UP OF BLACK WOMEN BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER: $13,575 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $13,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SLOSS FURNACES FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT THREADWAYS INC: $13,478 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC: $13,477 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BALDWIN LITERACY COUNCIL: $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetALABAMA CONSTITUTION VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLAGRANGE LIVING HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetTri-State Expo Juneteenth Affairs: $12,397 over 1y, 20% of budgetARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY: $10,250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCREATE BIRMINGHAM: $10,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHEART OF DIXIE RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

  • Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LANDMARKS FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY ↗
  • Who funds INVISIBLE HISTORIES ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY RESTORATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JESSE OWENS MEMORIAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds TUSKEGEE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS MULTICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE MEDICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds DOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HELEN KELLER BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE WALLACE CENTER FOR ARTS AND ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM NEGRO SOUTHERN LEAGUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WIREGRASS BLUES SOCIETY ↗

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.

The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Protective Life Found…Mike and Gillian Good…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Robert R Meyer Founda…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…Community Foundation …Hill Crest Foundation…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL87.9× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation

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 Humanities Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alabama Humanities Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    47report 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.

    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 168 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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