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Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

Supports activities that increase the conservation of natural resources, improve local economies, and provide for human development.

$856k
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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 2025.

Education$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$370kCommunity Improvement$359kPublic Benefit$310kHuman Services$159kEmployment$127kEnvironment$103kArts & Culture$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 63 grants below total $791,018, the rows itemized in this filing. The $856,318 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,300 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $190k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $601k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF TRUSSVILLE$30,000
CALERA MAIN STREET$29,350
ADY'S BIG ARMY$29,304
CAWACO RC&D INC$23,972
FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER (DBA JASPER MAIN STREET)$20,950
UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION$20,000
CHILTON COUNTY FIRST RESPONSE ENDOWMENT FUND$20,000
JASPER CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER$20,000
LUPTON JR HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER$20,000
ELEVATE BIRMINGHAM$20,000
WALKER COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT$15,572
LINDA NOLEN LEARNING CENTER$15,000
APPALACHIAN SCHOOL$15,000
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 (FY21–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VINEYARD FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $10k → 7%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $15k → 16%YMCA OF CHILTON COUNTY: $15k → 16%YMCA OF CHILTON COUNTY: $12k → 16%ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $11k → 17%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $8k → 16%THE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $9k → 17%ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $6k → 17%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 16%RALEIGHS PLACE: $10k → 16%BUTTERFLY BRIDGE: $9k → 16%CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER: $20k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $9k → 16%CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER: $6k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $7k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $10k → 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 48 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
67

Total granted

$1.6M
$747k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

44%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • BC
    BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +685%
  • CM
    CALERA MAIN STREET INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +154%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER
    3× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • YS
    YOUNG STARS BASKETBALL ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • CP
    CENTER POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • SM
    SUSAN MOORE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Elberta Volunteer Fire Department

To train volunteer firefighters and respond to emergency calls within the area. to provide emergency care as necessary to the area based on 911 calls and emergency medical services.

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2
Alabama Affordable Housing Association Inc

To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.

Community Improvement
3
Shelby County Historical Society

Preserve the history of shelby county al

—
4
Central Alabama Works

To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.

—
5
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
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6
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
7
New Bethel Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer fire department serving the residents of new bethel community in alabama

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
9
Lighthouse of Tallapoosa County in

Rehabilitation facility for alcoholics

Health
10
Harvest Volunteer Fire Dept

To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
12
Friends of the Gadsden County Public Library Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Lake Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Arts Council of Blount County. 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

57 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. 57 of the 146 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
27/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Walker County Board of Education: $92,988 · OtherOak Mountain Elementary: $92,817 · OtherWALKER COUNTY COMMISSION: $86,864 · OtherTENNESSEE DEPT OF EDUCATION: $75,999 · Other+107 more: $1,649,550 · Other+107 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF CHILT: $27,060 · Human ServicesCHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $26,140 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $25,957 · Human ServicesBUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILD ADVOCACY CEN: $18,880 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $17,910 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $15,378 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesRALEIGH'S PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesVineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSMALL MAGIC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $106,182 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE HORIZONS SCHOOL INC: $14,000 · EducationREGIONAL LIBRARY AND ARTS FOUNDATION: $13,000 · EducationSAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER: $7,305 · EducationCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationCALERA MAIN STREET INC: $56,850 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET LEEDS: $25,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER: $20,950 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $18,452 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET ALABAMA: $18,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF MCCALLA INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER SHELBY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,221 · Community Improvement+2 more: $10,981 · Community ImprovementJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM: $110,000 · EmploymentHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · EmploymentCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $62,799 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER: $40,000 · EnvironmentAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority: $31,865 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $20,800 · Arts & CultureREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,998,218Human Services$183,825Education$183,487Community Improvement$169,454Employment$130,000Environment$102,799Arts & Culture$72,665

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM: $110,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $106,182 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $62,799 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCALERA MAIN STREET INC: $56,850 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER: $40,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetWALKER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $32,413 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority: $31,865 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF CHILT: $27,060 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $26,140 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY: $25,957 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAIN STREET LEEDS: $25,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $23,259 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER: $20,950 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $20,800 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetREMLAP FIRE & EMS DISTRICT INC: $20,338 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetELEVATE BIRMINGHAM: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBridgeways Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILTON COUNTY FIRST RESPONSE ENDOWMENT FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetBUTTERFLY BRIDGE CHILD ADVOCACY CEN: $18,880 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $18,452 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMAIN STREET ALABAMA: $18,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $17,910 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $15,378 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA LIONS SIGHT ASSOCIATION INC: $15,145 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCITY OF LIGHTS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBACKYARD BLESSINGS: $14,416 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE HORIZONS SCHOOL INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMASTERS PLAN MINISTRIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $10,311 over 1y, 12% of budgetRALEIGH'S PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREV BIRMINGHAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPSTONE HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED BARN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCCALLA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetVineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSMALL MAGIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION: $8,957 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAIRVIEW COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8,740 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER: $7,305 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEAST LAKE INITIATIVE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPrecious Paws Rescue Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEAST LAKE ACADEMY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM ↗
  • Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAWACO RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CALERA MAIN STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOCUST FORK RIVER ↗
  • Who funds WALKER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF CHILT ↗
  • Who funds CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF WALKER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET LEEDS ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN JASPER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF BLOUNT COUNTY ↗

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 Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Walker Area Community…The Daniel Foundation…Holle Family Foundati…Mike and Gillian Good…Community Partnership…Hill Crest Foundation…United Way of Central…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Protective Life Found…Junior League of Birm…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL68.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Holle Family Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham Inc

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 Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    24report 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 146 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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