Alabama · Nonprofit
Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority
Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority (Alabama) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,964,861 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($23,213,172). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Uab Educational Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
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.
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: 2017 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.6M.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Education Television Foundation Authority’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 Education Television Foundation Authority leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 Education Television Foundation Authority.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 94% — 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
42% of Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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 Education Television Foundation Authority draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationlocalportfolio matchAL · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Uab Educational Foundationlocalportfolio matchAL · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- The Gratitude Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jado Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Documentary Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Landa Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hill Crest Foundation Incshared funderslocalAL · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 125 organizations near you
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Walker Area Community Foundation Incshared fundersAL · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Junior League of Birmingham InclocalAL · funds 64 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Alabama Educational Television Commission · exempt
- APT Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority?
- Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority (Alabama) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,964,861 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($23,213,172). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $23,964,861 in grants to Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $23,213,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing