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ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC

ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,724 to it, the largest being ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS ($36,606). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$1.8M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Alabama Association of Conservation Districts Inc does

Mission

The alabama association of conservation districts (aacd) is the unified voice of alabama's 67 conservation districts. Organized as a 501(c)3, aacd works in cooperation with the alabama soil & water conservation committee, federal, state, and local governments, and other partners to support and provide services to conserve, enhance, and protect alabama's vast natural resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provision and administration of office and accounting software for all 67 soil and water conservation districts to improve efficiency, facilitate communications, and assist with maintianing uniforminty and accurancy in compliance reporting.

    $67,419 spent
    11% of program spending

  2. Delivery of technical program services and training statewide. Provision of and support for employee, volunteer, and landowner training for 67 soil & water conservation districts. Technical assistance and stakeholder involvement coordination for expanding conservation programs to assist with drought-resilience and invasive species management. Coordination of volunteer committees focused on urban conservation and best management practices for managing forestry and wildlife.

    $570,131 spent$193,079 earned by the program
    89% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $637,550.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($693k) Expenses 100 ($778k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 76 ($529k) Expenses 67 ($525k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 65 ($450k) Expenses 68 ($533k) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 109 ($756k) Expenses 90 ($699k) Net assets 111 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 116 ($805k) Expenses 70 ($541k) Net assets 144 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 92 ($640k) Expenses 131 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 162 ($1.1M) Expenses 131 ($1.0M) Net assets 118 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 154 ($1.1M) Expenses 147 ($1.1M) Net assets 128 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 179 ($1.2M) Expenses 142 ($1.1M) Net assets 152 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (142)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

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 $1.3M to $1.7M (+24%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 56% · 2018 57% · 2019 62% · 2020 76% · 2021 63% · 2022 69% · 2023 46% · 2024 54% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$85k
’17
$4k
’18
−$83k
’19
$56k
’20
$264k
’21
−$376k
’22
$103k
’23
−$80k
’24
$129k
’25
2.4
months of
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

Vickie Watkins

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131313121212131312
Joined·+3+5+1+3+0+1+0+6
No longer listed·35230007
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11 → $26k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $500 from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Power Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS 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

Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils84%Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc84%Alabama Wildlife Federation83%Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council83%Conservation Alabama82%Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Inc82%Alabama Rural Water Assn Inc81%Alabama Alliance Network81%

Nationally

Alaska Association of Conservation Districts Inc85%Wyoming Assoc of Conservation Districts85%National Association of Conservation Districts85%Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils84%Mid-South Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc84%Alabama Wildlife Federation83%Montana Association of Conservation Districts83%Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 42%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC?
ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,724 to it, the largest being ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS ($36,606). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,724 in grants to ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC?
ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $36,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC find more funders?
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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 2 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