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Alabama Law Foundation Inc

To promote law related public service projects and provide for delivery of legal services to the poor.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$240,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Alabama Law Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalEducationPublic Benefit
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$1.8M28%
FY20232$38k0%
FY202213$1.1M15%
FY202112$1.1M8%
FY202011$1.1M9%
FY201910$791k0%
FY201810$819k10%
FY201710$781kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$7.5MArts & Culture$38k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Alabama Law Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res$1,202,4258n/a
Legal Services Alabama Inc$1,159,29072%
Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc$934,927729%
South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program$891,913844%
Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program$806,832782%
Montgomery County Bar Foundation$621,055745%
Young Womens Christian Assn of Birmingham$472,50071%
Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama$348,16774%
Equal Justice Initiative$305,00070%
Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$180,00069%
Alabama Bankruptcy Assistance Program Savlp$135,0001n/a
Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution Inc$110,000210%
Samford University$102,25020%
Short the Squirrel Inc$85,000321%
Georgia Innocence Project Inc$38,00022%
The Judge Frank M Johnson Jr Institute$35,00019%
Redemption Earned Inc$25,00014%
Senior Citizens Services Inc$25,00012%
Miles College Community Development Corportation$10,0001n/a
Birmingham International Educational Film Festival$2,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Alabama Law Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLegal Services Alabama Inc: $1,159,290 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetBirmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc: $934,927 over 7y, 29% of budgetSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program: $891,913 over 8y, 44% of budgetMadison County Volunteer Lawyers Program: $806,832 over 7y, 82% of budgetMontgomery County Bar Foundation: $621,055 over 7y, 45% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Assn of Birmingham: $472,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama: $348,167 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $305,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetAlabama Center for Dispute Resolution Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetSamford University: $102,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShort the Squirrel Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGeorgia Innocence Project Inc: $38,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Judge Frank M Johnson Jr Institute: $35,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetRedemption Earned Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSenior Citizens Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 Civil Justice FoundationAL28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Legal Services Alabama Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc · South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Alabama Law Foundation Inc

How much does Alabama Law Foundation Inc give?
Alabama Law Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $1,792,018 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alabama Law Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (99%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Alabama Law Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res ($1.2M), Legal Services Alabama Inc ($1.2M), Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc ($935k).
Does Alabama Law Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alabama Law Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
Where is Alabama Law Foundation Inc based?
Alabama Law Foundation Inc is based in AL.

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 20 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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