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Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

$7k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2022.

Environment$42kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,265 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,165 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.
$6,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Village Creek Society$6,100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Coosa Riverkeeper: $4k → 7%Stream Beam: $500 → 11%Wetland Environmental Learning Projects Inc: $1k → 13%Black Warrior Riverkeeper Inc: $4k → 16%Friends of Hurricane Creek: $4k → 17%Litter River Waterkeeper: $3k → 19%Mobile Baykeeper: $4k → 19%Black Warrior Riverkeeper: $250 → 16%Friends of Hurricane Creek: $1k → 17%The Village Creek Society: $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 field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mobile Baykeeper: $8,000 · OtherMobile BaykeeperThe Village Creek Society: $6,100 · OtherThe Village Creek SocietyFRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK INC: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK INCIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBlack Warrior Riverkeeper Inc: $2,500 · OtherBlack Warrior Riverkeeper IncCoosa Riverkeeper: $2,500 · OtherCoosa RiverkeeperWetland Environmental Learning Projects Inc: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC: $4,250 · EnvironmentBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INCCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INCMobile Baykeeper Inc: $4,000 · EnvironmentMobile Baykeeper IncENERGY ALABAMA: $1,000 · EnvironmentENERGY ALABAMATENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $1,000 · EnvironmentTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER
Other$28,600Environment$14,250

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC: $4,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetENERGY ALABAMA: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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  • Who funds TENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER ↗

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.

Abahac IncPatagoniaorgAmazonsmile Foundation
Abahac IncTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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