Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE
ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE (Alabama) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016,088 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($339,082). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Alabama Humanities Alliance does
Mission
To connect alabamians: to tell stories and to listen, to share ideas and to learn to link the past to the present, and to seek a deeper understanding of our humanity. The alliance is supported financially by private corporations, foundations, and individuals as well as federal, state, and local governmental agencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Regrants - the regrants program is a series of grants made by the alliance to other non-profit organizations to fund public humanities programs, including learning opportunities, public forums, documentary films, and other projects that offer opportunities for education, impactful storytelling, and the coming together of communities.school and university partners for educational renewal (super) - the super program consists of a series of residential seminars over the summer and workshops during the school year to provide teachers with content information and a network of scholars to enhance their teaching. Super aims to increase participants' subject knowledge and, in turn, their confidence, enthusiasm, and effectiveness as educators. Alabama history day - alabama history day (ahd) fosters interdisciplinary academic programs focused on historical research, interpretation and creative expression for 6th to 12th grade students. By participating in ahd, students become writers, filmmakers, web designers, playwrights and artists as they create unique contemporary expressions of history. The experience culminates in a series of contests at the local level which progress to our state…
$1,339,648 spentof which $363,511 as grants$152,384 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,339,648.
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.
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 $1.1M to $1.6M (+44%).
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 55% · 2018 54% · 2019 69% · 2020 98% · 2021 88% · 2022 87% · 2023 81% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
Charles Holmes
Executive director
Board chair
Ed Mizzell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $85k → $113k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 HUMANITIES ALLIANCE’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 HUMANITIES ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 HUMANITIES ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 48% · 2021 49% · 2022 67% · 2023 44% — 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
35% of ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
55% of ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.8M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10.8M
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 HUMANITIES ALLIANCE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE?
- ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE (Alabama) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016,088 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($339,082). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,016,088 in grants to ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE?
- FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $339,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE 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 25 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