Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA POSSIBLE
ALABAMA POSSIBLE (Alabama) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,995,928 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($570,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $898k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $216k
What Alabama Possible does
Mission
To partner with higher-education and faith-based organizations to strengthen awareness about poverty and its causes while advocating for fact-based policy decisions statewide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Alabama Possible is a statewide 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works towards breaking down barriers to prosperity through strategic partnerships with higher education institutions, community partners, policymakers, and faith-based organizations. Its research-driven work is designed to broaden relationships and enhance capacity building, with a focus on addressing systemic poverty. All alabamians can lead prosperous lives, and its programs work to make that possibility a reality. Alabama Possible has changed the way people think and talk about poverty in alabama since 1993. Auburn university president wilford bailey, auburn history professor emeritus wayne flynt, social work pioneer eulene hawkins, and alabama baptist convention president earl potts founded Alabama Possible in 1993 when they decided to join forces and take action against poverty in alabama. Alabama Possible removes barriers to prosperity through advocacy, education, and collaboration by implementing the following focus areas: postsecondary accessAlabama Possible's postsecondary access programs build educational equity across alabama for under-resourced and first-generation college-going students and students…
$892,684 spent$165,960 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $892,684.
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 2022 to 2023, from $608k to $316k (−48%).
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 3% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of ALABAMA POSSIBLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% 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
Chandra Scott
Executive director
Board chair
Jason Vandiver
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $70k → $699k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 POSSIBLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 POSSIBLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 POSSIBLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 33% · 2019 42% · 2020 31% · 2021 36% · 2022 68% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of ALABAMA POSSIBLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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 POSSIBLE draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 POSSIBLE has grown faster than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALABAMA POSSIBLE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALABAMA POSSIBLE: 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 POSSIBLE?
- ALABAMA POSSIBLE (Alabama) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,995,928 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($570,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA POSSIBLE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,995,928 in grants to ALABAMA POSSIBLE, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA POSSIBLE?
- Lumina Foundation for Education Inc is the largest funder on record, with $570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA POSSIBLE 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 34 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