Alabama · Nonprofit
BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM
BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,690 to it, the largest being THE THOMAS E JERNIGAN FOUNDATION ($4,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Pleiad Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Maynard Nexsen Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $85.
1 of 6 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 BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM’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
BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 167 organizations that share them.
- Pleiad Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Maynard Nexsen Foundationlocalportfolio matchAL · funds 76 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
- The Welch Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Dance Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sybil Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artsmemphisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Linn-Henley Charitable Trust Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Power Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 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.
Organizations like BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM: 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 BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM?
- BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,690 to it, the largest being THE THOMAS E JERNIGAN FOUNDATION ($4,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $8,690 in grants to BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM?
- THE THOMAS E JERNIGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM 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 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