Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC
ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,734 to it, the largest being CD HELEN AND JEFF GLAZE FOUNDATION ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Montgomery Area Community Wellness Coalitionlocal
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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: 2021 17% · 2022 4% · 2023 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC’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 WRITERS FORUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 WRITERS FORUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 54% · 2022 75% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Montgomery Area Community Wellness CoalitionlocalAL · funds 55 organizations near you
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Martin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gratitude Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Uab Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sybil Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert R Meyer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Goodrich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lillian C McGowin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Alabama Community Foundation InclocalAL · funds 85 organizations near you
- River Region United WaylocalAL · funds 35 organizations near you
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.
Government funding ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 WRITERS FORUM INC
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 WRITERS FORUM 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.
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 WRITERS FORUM INC?
- ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,734 to it, the largest being CD HELEN AND JEFF GLAZE FOUNDATION ($32,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $82,734 in grants to ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC?
- CD HELEN AND JEFF GLAZE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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