· Public charity
West Alabama Regional Commission
The general purpose of the WEST ALABAMA REGIONAL COMMISSION is to plan for the unified and far-reaching development of the west alabama region, eliminate duplication of services by member governments, and promote economy and efficiency through coordination between member governments.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $110,687 |
| FOCUS ON SENIOR CITIZENS | $101,600 |
| PICKENS CO FAMILY RESOURCE CTR | $68,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF ALABAMA (LSA) | $56,000 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY COMMISSION | $30,000 |
| GREENE COUNTY COMMISSION | $26,000 |
| SARCOA | $14,397 |
| TOWN OF WOODSTOCK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CITY OF GREENSBORO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CITY OF MOUNDVILLE | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF BOLIGEE | $10,000 |
| CITY OF BRENT | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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 +139% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFOCUS ON SENIOR CITIZENS OF TUSCALO9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2021–2025 · $671k
- PCPICKENS CO FAMILY RESOURCE CTR9× · 2017–2025 · $549k
Funded once
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $164k · revenue +54%
- TOTOWN OF BOLIGEEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 22 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization West Alabama Regional Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Alabama Regional Commission. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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