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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA’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.

02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 57 grants below total $1,987,835 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,057,785 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,950 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

  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $893k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
WALLACE STATE COMM COLLEGE FUTURE FDN$75,000
GADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
J F DRAKE STATE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE$75,000
EAST LAKE INITIATIVE$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
ALABAMA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$50,000
WALLACE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - SELMA$50,000
BIRMINGHAM CORPS$50,000
JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$49,710
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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%WOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK: $15k → 16%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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%
+26%

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

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

  • 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%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
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.

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4
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
5
Alabama Association of Nonprofits

Strengthen and support alabama nonprofits in serving their communities.

Human Services
6
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
7
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
8
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
9
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.

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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
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
12
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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Partnership for Children and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Economic Developme…University Support Foundati…Youth Development & Mentors…Disability Services Organiz…Youth Education & EnrichmentPrivate K-12 SchoolsCriminal Justice Reform & L…Faith-Based Recovery & Resi…Faith-Based Charitable Foun…Industry Trade AssociationsHospital Systems and Health…Early Childhood Care and Ed…Child & Family Support Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%8%<5yr16%8%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr14%15%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/104
the rest of the field
16%
1,788/11,237

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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 104 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
36/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 ServicesWOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK — $35,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR — $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 · EducationALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 · EducationTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 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 budgetTHE ALABAMA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC — $46,610 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $46,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetShelby Emergency Assistance Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetAthens Limestone County Family Resource Center Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBirthwell Partners — $40,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetWest Alabama Womens Center Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWOMEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION NETWORK — $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR — $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOSTARA INITIATIVE — $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTroy Resilience Project — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBAMA KIDS INC — $20,310 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHUDSONS 1ST CLASS ACADEMY — $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF HUNTSVIL — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMomentum Alumnae Program Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE HEALTH CLINIC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLSPRING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetELMORE COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGlobal Ties Alabama — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVOICES for Alabama's Children — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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

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 Women's Foundation of Alabama 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.

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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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