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Women's Foundation of Alabama

WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA is a community-driven foundation impacting the world around us by accelerating economic opportunity for women.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
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.

Employment$1.5MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$303kYouth Development$278kCrime & Legal$222kCommunity Improvement$216kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $1,987,835, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,057,785 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,950 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

  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $893k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
EAST LAKE INITIATIVE$75,000
WALLACE STATE COMM COLLEGE FUTURE FDN$75,000
WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
J F DRAKE STATE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE$75,000
COMMUNITY CARE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK$66,075
SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$62,795
BEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$62,000
LAWSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$51,709
WALLACE STATE COMM COLLEGE FUTURE FDN$50,000
BIRMINGHAM CORPS$50,000
ALABAMA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$50,000
WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - SELMA$50,000
JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$49,710
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 (FY17–24, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%TROY RESILIENCE PROJECT: $25k → 27%ATHENS LIMESTONE COUNTY FAMILY RESOIURCE CENTER: $20k → 10%ATHENS LIMESTONE COUNTY FAMILY RESOIURCE CENTER: $20k → 10%ALABAMA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $25k → 18%ALABAMA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $25k → 18%TUSCALOOSA LATINO COALITION: $25k → 17%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $40k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $13k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $40k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $40k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $40k → 16%WOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK: $20k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $15k → 16%WOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK: $15k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $25k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $36k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $25k → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $25k → 16%YWCA OF BIRMINGHAM: $20k → 16%YWCA CENTRAL ALABAMA: $10k → 16%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 41 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
40

Total granted

$5.5M
$628k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $581k 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 ServicesEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • EL
    EAST LAKE INITIATIVE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +597% · 31% of their budget
  • LB
    Lurleen B Wallace Community College Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +38%
  • WS
    WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUTURE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $184k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SC
    SNEAD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • UW
    UNITED WOMEN OF COLORgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +91%
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
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
2
Alabama Impact Alliance

To build awareness about disparities for the underserved and underrepresented that exist across Alabama and the nation through advocacy and education.

Community Improvement
3
Alabama Asset Building Coalition

The Mission of the Alabama Asset Building Coalition is to promote financial stability and self-sufficiency for low wealth individuals and families.

Human Services
4
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
5
Adelante Alabama Worker Center

To unite low-wage and immigrant workers and their families in the birmingham area to defend our rights, promote our dignity, and pursue justice for all.

—
6
Alabama Association of Nonprofits

Strengthen and support alabama nonprofits in serving their communities.

Human Services
7
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
Choose Life of North Alabama Inc

Our mission is to offer gospel-focused, life-affirming choices, education and compassionate counsel to those facing pregnancy related decisions.

—
10
Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers

Promote positive outcomes for all children, families, and communities by leveraging the collective impact of family resource centers and championing quality family support and strengthening practices/policies.

Human Services
11
Birmingham Healthy Start Plus Inc

Providing a service delivery system that engages, empowers and educates the community by promoting positive behaviors for healthyoutcomes through targeted programmatic activities that focus on collaborative involvement in the elimination…

Health
12
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Partnership for Children; the most unlike its peers is Walker County Coalition for the Homeless. 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

63 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. 63 of the 104 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
37/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jefferson State Community College: $641,446 · OtherJefferson State Community CollegeLawson State Community College: $383,019 · OtherLawson State Community CollegeSHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $318,744 · OtherSHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGECALHOUN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $304,345 · OtherCALHOUN COMMUNITY COLLEGEBEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $302,000 · OtherBEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEWALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $299,748 · OtherWALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEGADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $175,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO: $170,000 · OtherSERVING YOU MINISTRIES INC: $158,200 · Other+56 more: $1,636,953 · Other+56 moreJASPER AREA FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesJASPER AREA F…CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $135,000 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RES…YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $66,160 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS …CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $52,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S AI…THE ALABAMA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ALABAMA C…Athens Limestone County Family Resource Center Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $35,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK: $35,000 · Human Services+7 more: $145,000 · Human Services+7 moreLurleen B Wallace Community College Foundation: $184,787 · EducationLurleen B …WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $184,300 · EducationWALLACE ST…AUM FOUNDATION USA INC: $65,000 · EducationAUM FOUNDA…ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 · EducationALABAMA PA…BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27,000 · EducationTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 · EducationALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $76,200 · Education+6 moreEAST LAKE INITIATIVE: $340,450 · Housing & ShelterONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 · Crime & LegalBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC: $46,610 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC: $45,000 · Crime & LegalOSTARA INITIATIVE: $35,000 · Crime & LegalBAMA KIDS INC: $20,310 · Crime & LegalCommunity Care Development Network: $116,075 · Community ImprovementWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $46,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBIRMINGHAM CORPS: $80,000 · EmploymentHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC: $64,000 · Employment
Other$4,389,455Human Services$818,660Education$647,287Housing & Shelter$340,450Crime & Legal$196,920Community Improvement$167,075Employment$144,000

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 budgetEAST LAKE INITIATIVE: $340,450 over 6y, 31% of budgetJASPER AREA FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC: $260,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetLurleen B Wallace Community College Foundation: $184,787 over 3y, 12% of budgetWALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $184,300 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES: $135,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity Care Development Network: $116,075 over 2y, 13% of budgetST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetALABAMA ARISE: $99,728 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBIRMINGHAM CORPS: $80,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM: $66,160 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAUM FOUNDATION USA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC: $64,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWALKER COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $60,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $58,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $52,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALABAMA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetALABAMA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC: $46,610 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $46,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetShelby Emergency Assistance Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBirthwell Partners: $40,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetAthens Limestone County Family Resource Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOSTARA INITIATIVE: $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK: $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWest Alabama Womens Center Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTroy Resilience Project: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBAMA KIDS INC: $20,310 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetGIRLSPRING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUDSONS 1ST CLASS ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE HEALTH CLINIC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF HUNTSVIL: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetELMORE COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMomentum Alumnae Program Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOICES for Alabama's Children: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGlobal Ties Alabama: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

  • Who funds EAST LAKE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds JASPER AREA FAMILY SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Lurleen B Wallace Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds Community Care Development Network ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA ARISE ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM CORPS ↗
  • Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds AUM FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WALKER COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds THE ALABAMA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY ↗
  • Who funds ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Shelby Emergency Assistance Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds Birthwell Partners ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Alabama Civil Justice…Mike and Gillian Good…Community Partnership…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…United Way of Central…Junior League of Birm…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL70.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation

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 Women's Foundation of Alabama funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Foundation of Alabama. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    29report 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 104 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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