· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $624,649 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $789,588 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $164,939 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $213k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUDERDALE CO COMMISSION | $69,989 |
| WINSTON COUNTY COMMISSION | $43,000 |
| RED BAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| COLBERT COUNTY COMMISSION AL | $21,000 |
| FLORENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT | $18,997 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMISSION | $17,989 |
| MARION COUNTY COMMISSION AL | $15,989 |
| LAUDERDALE CO HIGH SCHOOL | $15,750 |
| THARPTOWN HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BEAR CREEK COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| ARLEY-SMITH LAKE SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| RUSSELLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| HACKLEBURG HS ALMARION CO BDOF EDUCA | $13,000 |
| RUSSELLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $13,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $48k · revenue +85%
- CVCRAFT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +373%
- NANORTHWEST ALABAMA SPAY AND NEUTER ASSISTANCE3× · 2019–2023 · $17k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NANORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +81%
- IHIn Harmony with Nature (in house)one grant, 2021 · $26k
- PCPhil Campbell High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
Fire protection-first responder services
Provide fire protection & teach fire safety to local communities
Providing volunteer firefighting & emergency services
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.
Fire and rescue for cloverdale alabama community
Fire & rescue for the east howellsville township in robeson county, nc.
Community volunteer fire department
Volunteer fire department
State Park - Recreation, camping Education, community service
Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Old Railroad Bridge Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 62. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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