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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 FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$240k
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.

Crime & Legal$7.5MArts & Culture$38k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$240,000
SOUTH ALABAMA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$220,000
LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA$200,000
ALABAMA STATE BAR VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$200,000
ALABAMA BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SAVLP$135,000
BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$125,000
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF COURTS$105,370
MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$100,000
YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$70,000
ALABAMA CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS$60,000
HISPANIC INTEREST COALITION OF ALABAMA$55,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE OF ALABAMA$50,000
SAMFORD UNIVERSITYCUMBERLAND INNOCENCE CLINIC$37,250
FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE$35,000
SENIOR SERVICES VIA HEALTH$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $75k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $70k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $70k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $68k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $65k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $65k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $60k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 14 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$7.3M
$3k

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
Crime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +84%
  • BV
    BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $935k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget
  • MC
    MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $807k · revenue +37% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

  • BI
    BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
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
2
Alabama Justice Initiative

To create a hub for alabamians committed to ending mass incarceration through social justice advocacy. the organization is dedicated to activating the power and elevating the voices of alabamians impacted by the criminal justice system.

Education
3
Alabama Association for Justice

Make sure any person who is injured by the misconduct and negligence of others can get justice in the courtroom, even when taking on the most powerful interests; to eliminate civil justice restrictions; to ensure members have the tools…

Community Improvement
4
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc

Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
6
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

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7
Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.

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8
Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project

Mississippi volunteer lawyers project enables volunteer attorneys to provide equal access to justice for mississippians of low income and limited means through high quality pro bono legal assistance.

Crime & Legal
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama Foundation

The aclu of alabama foundation battles to protect and expand the civil liberties and civil rights of alabamians.

Civil Rights
10
Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal
11
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands

To enforce, advance and defend the civil legal rights of low income and vulnerable people, especially on behalf of elderly, children, victims of domestic violence and persons with disabilities, by providing free, civil legal assistance to…

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12
Mountain State Justice Inc

Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services Alabama Inc; the most unlike its peers is Miles College Community Development Corportation. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC: $1,159,290 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INCBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC: $934,927 · Crime & LegalBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INCSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program: $891,913 · Crime & LegalSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers ProgramMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM: $806,832 · Crime & LegalMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAMMONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $621,055 · Crime & LegalMONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION+3 more: $173,000 · Crime & LegalAlabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res: $1,202,425 · OtherAlabama Dept Conserv…ALABAMA BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SAVLP: $135,000 · OtherALABAMA BANKRUPTCY A…+2 more: $27,500 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $472,500 · Human ServicesHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $348,167 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $305,000 · Civil RightsSamford University: $102,250 · EducationSHORT THE SQUIRREL INC: $85,000 · EducationALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $180,000 · Public BenefitTHE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Crime & Legal$4,587,017Other$1,364,925Human Services$472,500Community Improvement$358,167Civil Rights$305,000Education$187,250Public Benefit$180,000Arts & Culture$35,000

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

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
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 Civil Justice…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Protective Life Found…Legal Services Alabam…The Community Foundat…Birmingham Volunteer …South Alabama Volunte…Mike and Gillian Good…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alabama Law Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alabama Law Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 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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