· Public charity
Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council
To provide local leadership required for developing and carrying out a plan for orderly conservation, improvement, and development, for implementing community based projects, and for the wise use of natural resources thereby improving economic opportunities for people within northwest alabama.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $215k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $353k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLBERT COUNTY ASSOC OF VF DEPTS | $57,500 |
| WINSTON COUNTY COMMISSION | $29,701 |
| RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $28,000 |
| COLBERT COUNTY COMMISSION | $25,000 |
| SHEFFIELD KIWANIS | $20,000 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $16,000 |
| CITY OF FLORENCE AL | $15,625 |
| THARPTOWN HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CHEROKEE HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HALEYVILLE CITY SCHOOLS | $14,632 |
| SHEFFIELD CITY SCHOOLS | $12,000 |
| EAST FRANKLIN JR HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| ANTHONY GARDNER DIVING & INSPECTING | $12,000 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $12,000 |
| KING & ASSOCIATES GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +85%
- CVCRAFT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +373%
- NANORTHWEST ALABAMA SPAY AND NEUTER ASSISTANCE3× · 2019–2023 · $17k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- LCLAUDERDALE CO COMMISSIONone grant, 2024 · $70k
- NANORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +94%
- IHIn Harmony with Nature (in house)one grant, 2021 · $26k
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.
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.
Preserve the history of shelby county al
To provide fire and ems for the russell county, al community
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.
To promote travel and tourism within dekalb county, alabama
Provide emergency medical assistance, training & education for area paramedics, hospitals and local government entities
For the protection from fire in soddy daisy tn
The mission of the stapleton fire department is to provide protection of life, property and environment from fires and other emergencies for the community of stapleton.
Fire fighting services, fire prevention and fire education and training serving the south baldwin community
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.
Fire protection-first responder services
Park and recreation improvements in Hoover, Alabama
Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 166 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.
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.
Open a dossier: Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils · The Long Lewis Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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