Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC
ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,700 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Alabama Folklife Association Inc does
Mission
To document preserve present and promote the folkways of Alabama through research education and programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Journal. 35 researchers writers photographers editors and designers contributed to publication of Tributaries: the sole journal dedicated to Alabama folklife published annually by the AFA. Vol. 19 features Black Belt quilting songs the Old Time Tennessee Muskmelon cotton mill culture Black landownership intentional communities Birmingham recording studios and three book reviews.
$11,106 spentof which $11,106 as grants29% of program spendingAlabama Folk. Program to elevate cultures and traditions from across the state through interviews with traditional artists and makers the Alabama Folk podcast and hands-on community workshops. Engaged 33 artists makers researchers and reviewers who were paid for their work. Delivered 22 hands-on community workshops across Alabama in pine needle basketry Gees Bend quilting vine weaving and Africatown quilting. Produced Season 4 of the Alabama Folk podcast that elevated diverse cultures geographies and voices. Included 6 episodes on Sacred Harp singing horse clubs sock making dove hunting Da de los Muertos and spoonmaking. Podcast has 4,955 plays to date.
$10,849 spentof which $10,849 as grants29% of program spendingCauthen Fellowships. Awarded 6 Cauthen Fellowships $1,200 each to individuals community and academic to support original research on Alabama folk traditions. Topics included: Gulf Coast Caribbean Carnival in Mobile visual art of James Buddy Snipe Alabama cotton industry folkways Jewish Alabama cookbooks Alabama banjo and Muscogee Creek shell carving.
$6,000 spentof which $6,000 as grants16% of program spendingResearch and fieldwork
$3,650 spentof which $3,650 as grants10% of program spendingTraditional Artist-in-Residency program
$2,929 spentof which $2,929 as grants8% of program spendingSalt and Pepper Music Series
$2,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants5% of program spending2 annual sacred harp singing events
$1,336 spentof which $1,336 as grants4% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,870.
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 2024 to 2025, from $122k to $165k (+35%).
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.
100% of ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Emily Blejwas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION 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 FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 47% · 2022 98% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $170k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$170k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION 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.
Public support
100%
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 FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC?
- ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,700 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $82,700 in grants to ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION INC?
- THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA FOLKLIFE ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 4 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