· Public charity
Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Assn
Promote travel, tourism and economic development in north alabama
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k14 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Huntsville Madison Cnty CVB | $20,000 |
| Decatur Morgan County CVB | $9,000 |
| Jackson County Chamber of Commerce | $9,000 |
| Marshall County Convention & Visito | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Cherokee Chamber of Commerce | $9,000 |
| DeKalb County Tourism Assn | $9,000 |
| Gadsden Etowah Tourism Board | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Athens Limestone County Tourism Boa | $7,000 |
| Winston County Arts Council | $5,000 |
| Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce | $5,000 |
| Blount County Chamber of Commerce | $5,000 |
| C3 of Northwest Alabama | $5,000 |
| Franklin County Chamber of Commerce | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
3 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. 3 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Assn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Assn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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