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Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council
Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,794 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council does
Mission
Our mission is to improve the economic social and physical environment of North Alabama communities by providing resources programs and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Water Works | Gave 443 students immersive place-based experiences that deepened their understanding of local water resources and their role in protecting them. The organization hosted 18 field trips featuring hands-on activities and outdoor learning focused on surface and groundwater watersheds and the connections between water forests wetlands wildlife and human use. By engaging students directly with local environments and water systems Water Works fostered long-term environmental awareness and stewardship.
$23,000 spent$6,880 earned by the program1% of program spendingAgricultural programs | Equipped 48 adults with practical knowledge to support conservation-minded sustainable agricultural and nutrition practices in their classrooms and communities. The organization offered 5 adult classes including teacher workshops Food & Nutrition Services-related programs and guided tours focused on water soil health and natural resource conservation. These sessions helped participants integrate conservation topics into curricula and outreach multiplying the organizations impact through the students and community members they serve.
$424,124 spent26% of program spendingDrinking Water Festival | The Festival inspired over 150 students to understand where their drinking water comes from and why protecting local water resources matters to their daily lives. Through one festival event the organization delivered interactive lessons on surface and groundwater drinking water systems and practical conservation behaviors students can adopt at home and school. Staff used hands-on activities and presentations to encourage environmental stewardship and connect classroom learning to real-world water issues.
$49,685 spent$38,000 earned by the program3% of program spending4d. Grantmaking and Community Project Support The organizations competitive grant program strengthened conservation education and community projects across its multicounty region by channeling resources to local partners that are best positioned to address ontheground needs. Through a structured process applications were accepted during a defined window scored for eligibility and merit by Board and Council members and formally approved at quarterly council meetings. Approved grantees entered into written grant agreements outlining eligible activities timelines and budgets. During the October 1June 30 project period staff monitored progress through required midyear checkins for projects not yet completed by March and through final reports due June 30. To receive reimbursement grantees submitted invoices and proof of payment photos and video documentation and a completed final report which staff reviewed to verify that grant funds were used for approved purposes and that project outcomes aligned with the grant agreement. This program expanded the organizations impact by supporting multiple locally led projects that advanced conservation environmental education and community…
$1,158,324 spentof which $951,324 as grants$1,044,904 earned by the program70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,655,133.
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 2024 to 2025, from $928k to $1.3M (+37%).
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 94% · 2018 2% · 2019 13% · 2020 90% · 2021 10% · 2022 91% · 2023 90% · 2024 94% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Renona Seibert
Executive Director
Board chair
Allen Pickens
Chairman Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $11.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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: $8.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils). These are real filings, and they are not money Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council raised.
From the IRS filings of Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council’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
Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
64% of Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $542k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$467k
- Department of the Interior$75k
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 Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council?
- Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,794 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,794 in grants to Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alabamas Mtns Rivers and Valleys Rsc Conservation and Dev Council 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 4 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