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Main Street Alabama

To educate citizens about ways to revitalize and preserve their small town downtowns and urban neighborhood commercial centers.

$490k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAIN STREET MARION$22,500
CENTREVILLE MAIN STREET$22,500
DOWNTOWN FLORENCE ALLIANCE$22,500
FOLEY MAIN STREET CCMM FDN$22,500
MONTEVALLO MAIN STREET$22,500
HISTORIC MAIN STREET OXFORD$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,500
COLUMBIANA MAIIN STREET$22,500
SOUTH HUNTSVILLE MAIN BUS ASSOC$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,500
DOWNTOWN DECATUR REDEVELOPMENT AUTH$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,500
MAIN STREET WETUMPKA$22,500
HEFLIN MAIN STREET$22,500
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MAIN STREET WETUMPKA: $23k → 12%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

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
Batesville Main Street Inc

Promote the activity in Downtown Batesville

Community Improvement
2
Main Street Princess Anne
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3
Main Street-Marion Indiana Inc

Revitalize and promote downtown marion

Community Improvement
4
Main Street of Monticello Inc

Revitalize and enhance downtown area

Arts & Culture
5
Central City Mainstreet

Promote historic preservation in the downtown area

Philanthropy
6
Main Street Texarkana Business Organization for a New Downtown

Preserve downtown area as an economical and commercial center by bringing culture and business enterprises to the area.

Community Improvement
7
Walnut Main Street Revitalization

Revitalizing downtown area of our community

Community Improvement
8
Main Street Lockport Inc

Downtown Revitalization

Community Improvement
9
Main Street DeFuniak Springs Inc

To preserve, protect, maintain, and improve the historic downtown district of DeFuniak Springs FL, and to increase community events and economic vitality of the downtown business district

Community Improvement
10
Main Street Mechanicsburg

To preserve and revitalize Mechanicsburg heritage and encourage and promote business and economic development

Community Improvement
11
The Dalles Main Street Program

Leading the economic vitality of downtown the dalles

Community Improvement
12
Main Street Historic Chestertown Inc

Foster an inviting, diverse and prosperous downtown.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Main Street Alexander City Inc; the most unlike its peers is Opelika Main Street Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEFLIN MAIN STREET: $22,500 · OtherHEFLIN MAIN STREETHISTORIC 4TH AVE BUS DISTRICT URBAN: $22,500 · OtherHISTORIC 4TH AVE BUS DISTRICT URBANIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBIANA MAIN STREET: $22,500 · OtherCOLUMBIANA MAIN STREETSOUTH HUNTSVILLE MAIN BUS ASSOC: $22,500 · OtherSOUTH HUNTSVILLE MAIN BUS ASSOCIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOWNTOWN DECATUR REDEVELOPMENT AUTH: $22,500 · OtherDOWNTOWN DECATUR REDEVELOPMENT AUTHIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHISTORIC MAIN STREET OXFORD: $22,500 · OtherHISTORIC MAIN STREET OXFORDFOLEY MAIN STREET CCMM FDN: $22,500 · OtherFOLEY MAIN STREET CCMM FDNIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN FLORENCE ALLIANCE: $22,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN FLORENCE ALLIANCEMONTEVALLO MAIN STREET: $22,500 · Community ImprovementMONTEVALLO MAIN STREETCentreville Main Street Inc: $22,500 · Community ImprovementCentreville Main Street IncMain Street Marion Inc: $22,500 · Community ImprovementMain Street Marion IncDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONMONROEVILLE MAIN STREET: $12,500 · Community ImprovementMONROEVILLE MAIN STREETDOWNTOWN GADSDEN INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN GADSDEN INCOPELIKA MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementOPELIKA MAIN STREET INCLAFAYETTE MAIN STREET: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLAFAYETTE MAIN STREETCALERA MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCALERA MAIN STREET INCMAIN STREET ATMORE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET ATMOREWETUMPKA DOWNTOWN: $22,500 · Human ServicesFORT PAYNE-MAIN STREET INC: $12,500 · Membership BenefitMAIN STREET DEMOPOLIS: $10,000 · Membership BenefitMAIN STREET ALEXANDER CITY INC: $12,500 · Education
Other$257,500Community Improvement$175,000Human Services$22,500Membership Benefit$22,500Education$12,500

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 budgetWETUMPKA DOWNTOWN: $22,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetMONTEVALLO MAIN STREET: $22,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetCentreville Main Street Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetDOWNTOWN JASPER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMONROEVILLE MAIN STREET: $12,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN GADSDEN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFORT PAYNE-MAIN STREET INC: $12,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE MAIN STREET: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCALERA MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Alabama Power Foundat…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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 Main Street Alabama funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Main Street Alabama. Bigger dots raise more.

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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
    4report 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 27 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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