Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC
ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,800,711 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,117,361). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $729k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $969k
What Alabama Policy Institute Inc does
Mission
The primary mission of the alabama policy institute, inc. Is to provide information to the people of alabama about primarily statewide legislative activity, and to promote and defend policies that preserve the principles of free markets, limited government, and strong families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Identify, develop, and promote innovative policy ideas by providing fact- based, objective analysis of key issues to preserve free markets, limit government, and promote strong families.
$670,106 spentof which $25,000 as grants$21,040 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $670,106.
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 2020 to 2021, from $364k to $699k (+92%).
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: 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $352k → $418k.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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: $148k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville). These are real filings, and they are not money ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 POLICY INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 POLICY INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 69% · 2019 61% · 2020 58% · 2021 53% · 2022 69% · 2023 54% — 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 POLICY INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
63% of ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE 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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: 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 POLICY INSTITUTE INC?
- ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,800,711 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,117,361). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,800,711 in grants to ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,117,361 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE 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.
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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing