Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,022 to it, the largest being THE THOMAS E JERNIGAN FOUNDATION ($82,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocal
- Alabama Humanities Allianceportfolio match
- McAbee Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 49% · 2018 47% · 2019 53% · 2020 80% · 2021 69% · 2022 70% · 2023 71% · 2024 79% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $3k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SPORTS HALL OF FAME’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 SPORTS HALL OF FAME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 30% · 2019 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 SPORTS HALL OF FAME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
86% of ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you
- Alabama Humanities Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McAbee Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pistrisdens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mw Smith Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Milos Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James I Harrison Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diane Wendland 1962 Chartble Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Georgia Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hearin - Chandler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME?
- ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,022 to it, the largest being THE THOMAS E JERNIGAN FOUNDATION ($82,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $162,022 in grants to ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME?
- THE THOMAS E JERNIGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing