How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Alabama?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in Alabama, currently National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Alabama from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in Alabama?

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation gives the most to environment organizations in Alabama, $59M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in Alabama?

$204M reached 152 environment organizations in Alabama, from 481 funders. 33% came from funders also based in Alabama.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Alabama · Environment

Who funds environment in Alabama

$204M reached 152 environment organizations in Alabama, from 481 funders, with no single one dominating.

$204M

granted

152

organizations

33%

from in-state

The short version

481 funders gave $204M to 152 environment organizations in Alabama across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
33% of that came from funders also based in Alabama; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in Alabama is National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, at $59M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, at $43M.

Largest funders of environment in Alabama

The funders giving the most to environment organizations in Alabama, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$59M 2Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils$41M 3The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham$8M 4National Rural Water Association$7M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$6M 6Impactassetsinc$6M 7Rsf Social Finance Inc$3M 8The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$3M 9Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$3M 10Silicon Valley Community Foundation$2M

Environment organizations in Alabama that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

142 other environment organizations$74M

Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium$43M Ekvnv Yefolecvlke$31M The Longleaf Alliance Inc$14M

How to find environment funders in Alabama

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Start with the funders already active in Alabama
The funders giving the most to environment in Alabama are National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. A funder already writing environment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
67% of environment money in Alabama comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Alabama.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Alabama?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in Alabama, currently National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Alabama from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in Alabama?: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation gives the most to environment organizations in Alabama, $59M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in Alabama?: $204M reached 152 environment organizations in Alabama, from 481 funders. 33% came from funders also based in Alabama.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.