Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA ARISE
ALABAMA ARISE (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,180,072 to it, the largest being MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION ($995,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Alabama Arise does
Mission
Alabama Arise is a statewide, member-led organization advancing public policies to improve the lives of alabamians who are marginalized by poverty. Our membership includes faith-based, community, nonprofit and civic groups, grassroots leaders and individuals from across al.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing: arise strengthens our coalition through educating our members and deepening community engagement. The arise organizing team hosts educational workshops, listening sessions and trainings across the state. In fy2025, arise staff presented at 216 community events reaching over 11,000 participants.
$599,224 spentof which $120,000 as grants$19,633 earned by the program37% of program spendingAdvocacy: arise engages a list of over 12,000 individuals in advocacy alerts. In fy2025, we sent 50 targeted action alerts generating over 12,000 individual legislative contacts, successfully supported 13 bills to advance our policy priorities, and blocked harmful legislation that would undermine our agenda. Arise reaches a statewide audience as a trusted source of information to promote our policy priorities. In fy2025, arise staff produced 25 media releases and were cited over 2,000 times in local, regional and national media stories.
$562,702 spent35% of program spendingPolicy analysis: the arise policy team analyzed proposed and current laws to produce 116 blog posts, fact sheets, newsletters and legislative updates.
$437,338 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,599,264.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $831k to $1.5M (+75%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ALABAMA ARISE’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. 3 of the last 8 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
Robyn Hyden
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $128k → $1.6M.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $61k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Forward). These are real filings, and they are not money ALABAMA ARISE raised.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA ARISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 ARISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 ARISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 49% · 2019 21% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 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
58% of ALABAMA ARISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 ARISE draws 96% 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. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 ARISE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALABAMA ARISE
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alabama Arise Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALABAMA ARISE: 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 ARISE?
- ALABAMA ARISE (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,180,072 to it, the largest being MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION ($995,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA ARISE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $8,180,072 in grants to ALABAMA ARISE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA ARISE?
- MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $995,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA ARISE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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