Alabama · Nonprofit
Alabama Game Changers
Alabama Game Changers (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,708 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($268,143). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $496k
- Net assets
- $-371256
What Alabama Game Changers does
Mission
The non-profit Alabama Game Changers (AGC) was created in 2014 to help merge the medical and educational communities together with respect to helping dyslexic children in Alabama. The initial focus was on assessment with early accurate diagnoses and advocacy. In 2020, Alabama
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In April of 2024, the organization ended the NOW! Program and the corresponding partnership with The Morris Center. The new neurorehabilitative program enabled diversification of services to better meet clients needs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Medical Clinic - Medical clinic is the first stop for all clients entering Alabama Game Changers (AGC). Our pediatrician reviews family history and screens for root causes of learning struggles. Those screens can include: hearing, vision, colorblindness, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and absence seizures. The results are reviewed and shared with the family and the pediatrician spends time educating parents on any findings.
$642,984 spent$698,605 earned by the program31% of program spendingNeurorehabilitative Reading Interventions for Dyslexia - Our sessions are designed to strengthen neurological weaknesses associated with dyslexia. This results in strengthening phonological awareness, improving language processing skills, and closing reading gaps. We offer single sessions, double sessions, as well as half day and full day comprehensives services.
$578,687 spent$578,519 earned by the program28% of program spendingEvaluations - Alabama Game Changers (AGC) can administer evaluations to diagnose dyslexia and dyscalculia. Evaluations can vary depending on the age of the child and the complexity of areas of concern. We can evaluate as young as four with a preliteracy evaluation. We can evaluate as old as twenty one with a college evaluation. In between those ages, we have a variety of evaluations which range from a two hour evaluation to a two day evaluation. Evaluations are options for parents to choose and range based on initial findings at a clients first visit in our medical clinic.
$308,039 spent$247,726 earned by the program15% of program spendingIntensive Program - The intensive program is the fastest program to strengthen a struggling reader with multiple deficits to close academic gaps. Clients participate in two occupational therapy sessions a day, four neurorehabilitative sessions a day, and and recreational therapy over two-six months.
$396,714 spent$427,388 earned by the program19% of program spendingOccupational Therapy - Our occupational therapy (OT) team helps children and young adults build the skills they need to grow, learn, and thrive. We use a hands-on, whole-body approach that supports how the brain and body work together to process and respond to the world around them. When any part of the sensory system isnt working well, everyday activitieslike getting dressed, playing, learning, or making friendscan become more challenging. We offer OT evaluations and therapeutic goals are dependent on the results of evaluations.
$117,543 spent$21,714 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,043,967.
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 2021 to 2022, from $173k to $374k (+117%).
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 3% · 2018 45% · 2020 1% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of Alabama Game Changers’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Shannon Weaver
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert Appelbaum
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $69k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Game Changers’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 Game Changers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 Game Changers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 41% — 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
14% of Alabama Game Changers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
70% of Alabama Game Changers's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $149k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $347k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Game Changers has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Alabama Game Changers
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alabama Game Changers: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Alabama Game Changers?
- Alabama Game Changers (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,708 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($268,143). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Alabama Game Changers have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $495,708 in grants to Alabama Game Changers, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alabama Game Changers?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $268,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alabama Game Changers 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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