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The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc

To ensure all black belt residents live and work in healthy, prosperous, inclusive, educated, creative and giving communities.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$243k
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 2024.

Philanthropy$5.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MYouth Development$792kScience & Tech$695kCivil Rights$613kCommunity Improvement$582kHuman Services$528kArts & Culture$415kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,543,547, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,294,033 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $750,486 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $292k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$13,706
Median grant
5
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES$242,750
BAMA KIDS$150,000
DIVINE GIRLS COALITION$128,000
GREENE COUNTY FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION$128,000
HALE COUNTY COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT SOCIETY$128,000
TRUTHSPEAKS INNOVATION FOUNDATION$103,000
TRUTHSPEAKS INNOVATION FOUNDATION$70,000
COLUMBIA WORLD PROJECT$50,000
TRUTHSPEAKS INNOVATION FOUNDATION$50,000
FUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES$50,000
BLACK BELT UNINCORPORATED WASTEWATER PROGRAM$50,000
APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND$28,500
AL UNITE$22,500
THE GREATEST INVESTMENT GIRLS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM$20,000
PROJECT SAY SOMETHING$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $697k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC: $19k → 14%NO MORE MARTYRS: $21k → 7%THE IVY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERING: $30k → 16%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $43k → 20%GREENE COUNTY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION: $100k → 30%KUNTRY KIDZ INC: $21k → 15%NO MORE MARTYRS: $15k → 7%HELP ORGANIZATION: $21k → 16%GREENE COUNTY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 30%GREENE COUNTY FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $128k → 31%GREENE COUNTY FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS: $29k → 30%GREENE COUNTY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION: $23k → 30%CHILDREN OF THE VILLAGE NETWORK INC: $25k → 31%GREENE COUNTY FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS: $15k → 30%MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $30k → 20%THE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $84k → 33%GREENE COUNTY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION: $10k → 30%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $10k → 20%GREENE COUNTY FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS: $10k → 30%GREENE COUNTY FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS: $8k → 30%CHILDREN OF THE VILLAGE NETWORK INC: $7k → 31%ATAP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 33%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.

Which US states its grants reach

KY
WV
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 39 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
86

Total granted

$9.8M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +266% · 52% of their budget
  • HC
    HALE COUNTY COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $371k · revenue +290% · 100% of their budget
  • BK
    BAMA KIDS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $338k · revenue +337% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • GT
    GOSPEL TABERNACLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • DC
    Dallas County Family Resource Center
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -59% · 28% of their budget
  • CO
    COALITION OF CONCERNED FAMILIES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
3
Radical Alli Center

The Radical ALLI Center provides free training opportunities for Black youth.

Education
4
Community Affairs Committee Inc

To establish and operate a nonprofit social programs for low income population.

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5
Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

—
6
African-American Interdenominational Ministries Inc

Counseling social justice social services outreach

Religion
7
Greater Huntsville Area National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc

The organization had a gala to raise money for scholarships and community events

Human Services
8
Salute Selma

Salute Selma Inc. was founded as a nonprofit and organized as a 501 c3 organization. Our commitment is to offer leadership experiences that enhance the knowledge respect and observance of the Selma Voting Rights Movement through…

Arts & Culture
9
Black Alabamians for Educational Options

Out mission is to equip, inform and empower Black families with information on accessing a high quality k-12 education

Education
10
Alcorn State Univ Alumni Asso of Dc

Alcorn State DC Asso

Education
11
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
12
Literacy Council of Macon County

Education, family support

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Foundation of the South; the most unlike its peers is No More Martyrs. 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

61 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. 61 of the 139 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
32/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC: $3,812,809 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INCAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $2,139,188 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND+1 more: $18,000 · PhilanthropyTRUTHSPEAKS INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $977,056 · OtherTRUTHSPEAKS INNOVATION FOUNDATIO…FATHERS OF ST EDMUND SOUTHERN MISSIONS INC: $200,000 · OtherFATHERS OF ST EDMUND SOUTHERN MI…GOSPEL TABERNACLE CHURCH: $150,000 · Other+105 more: $2,031,006 · Other+105 moreGREENE COUNTY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATIONS: $352,500 · Human ServicesDallas County Family Resource Center: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0: $84,000 · Human ServicesMOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $82,500 · Human ServicesNo More Martyrs: $35,550 · Human ServicesA T A P COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF THE VILLAGE NETWORK INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $30,000 · Human Services+6 more: $90,200 · Human ServicesHALE COUNTY COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT SOCIETY INC: $370,950 · Crime & LegalBAMA KIDS INC: $338,415 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $31,000 · Crime & LegalDivine Girls Coalition: $291,950 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBLACKBELT & CENTRAL ALABAMA HOUSING AUTHORITY: $158,000 · Housing & ShelterSowing Seeds of Hope Inc: $46,000 · Housing & ShelterBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $48,935 · Civil RightsProject Say Something: $46,250 · Civil RightsWOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH: $20,550 · Civil RightsSelma Bridge Crossing: $10,000 · Civil RightsALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED: $7,500 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$5,969,997Other$3,358,062Human Services$891,750Crime & Legal$740,365Health$296,950Housing & Shelter$204,000Civil Rights$133,235

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 budgetFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC: $3,812,809 over 7y, 69% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $2,139,188 over 7y, 52% of budgetHALE COUNTY COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT SOCIETY INC: $370,950 over 6y, 100% of budgetGREENE COUNTY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATIONS: $352,500 over 5y, 95% of budgetBAMA KIDS INC: $338,415 over 7y, 32% of budgetDivine Girls Coalition: $291,950 over 3y, 93% of budgetBLACKBELT & CENTRAL ALABAMA HOUSING AUTHORITY: $158,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetDallas County Family Resource Center: $150,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetDESTINATION LIBERATION: $95,400 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0: $84,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFRIENDS OF THEO RATLIFF: $79,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetAlabama Institute for Social Justice: $70,750 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWOMEN IN TRAINING INC: $59,750 over 3y, 13% of budgetWATER FINANCE EXCHANGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLACK BELT UNINCORPORATED WASTEWATER PROGRAM: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $48,935 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetProject Say Something: $46,250 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSowing Seeds of Hope Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetNo More Martyrs: $35,550 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE VILLAGE NETWORK INC: $32,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetEVERYBLACKGIRL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTUSKEGEE UNITED WOMEN'S LEAGUE INC: $29,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSELMA AREA FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKuntry Kidz Youth Foundation: $20,550 over 1y, 58% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH: $20,550 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSELMA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE GREATEST INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetEMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC: $18,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetHALE COUNTY LIBRARY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPANOLA OUTREACH: $15,725 over 2y, 7.0% of budget4th Judicial Community Corrections: $14,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBULLOCK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY & SHELTER: $12,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetLOVING ASSISTING NURTURING EDUCATING AND SUPPORTING: $10,550 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetArtsrevive Community Development Co: $10,050 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IVY CENTER OF HUNTSVILLE MADISON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOLEMAN CENTER BOARD OF THE CITY OF YORK TERM: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Dallas County System of Services Inc: $9,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CO: $7,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSAIASI FOUNDATION: $6,217 over 1y, 17% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $5,725 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELMA DALLAS COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetOAKWOOD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alabama Power Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Mike and Gillian Good…Bvm Capacity Building…Tombigbee Resource Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…Ala-Tom RC&D Council …Alabama ForwardSouthern Partners Fun…International Paper C…Alabama AriseWeaver-Parrish Charit…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL42× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Tombigbee Resource Conservation and Development Council · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Ala-Tom RC&D Council Inc · Alabama Forward · Southern Partners Fund Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Alabama Arise · Weaver-Parrish Charitable Trust

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 The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%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
    3get no government money at all
    19report 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 139 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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