Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,709,201 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($662,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $836k
What Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc does
Mission
Appleseed confronts unjust systems through research, bridge building, and advocacy to create an alabama that prioritizes justice and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Economic justice - researching and advocating justice to thoughtfully tackle and implement new policies that stop the poverty to prison pipeline by highlighting the effects of criminal justice debt, court fines and fees, and diversion programs. The jefferson county equitable fines and fees project (jeff), driver's license reform, and traffic stops project are 3 projects composing the economic justice program.
$570,762 spent51% of program spendingMass incarceration - the habitual felony offender project (hfoa) targets mass incarceration in alabama prisons to improve the unconstitutional prison system and assist indigent incarcerated prisoners serving life sentences to obtain new sentences and releases, and then aids these inmates in rehabilitation, crime prevention, and re-entry program services. Additionally, the second chance project targets unconstitutional prison sentences for low-level offenders that received harsh and severe punishments in the court of law. Through the second chance program, the center advocates to rectify and release those imprisoned from these harsh and unjust punishments for minor crimes by providing direct legal representation for these individuals.
$477,585 spent43% of program spendingRacial justice, health for justice, and government accountability - advocating for education, healthcare, and equitably distributed infrastructure versus prioritizing punishment and deprivation amongst alabama's population and its african american community. In addition to the human justice rights advocacy, these programs also involve researching and advocating justice in the government systems that pursue profit over the fair administration of justice, and shining a light on harmful government policies and practices, especially those that impact vulnerable communities.
$68,444 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,116,791.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $523k to $1.0M (+96%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Carla Crowder
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $132k → $573k.
12 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 60% · 2019 41% · 2020 42% · 2021 29% · 2022 21% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC?
- ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,709,201 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($662,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,709,201 in grants to ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $662,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing