Alabama · Nonprofit
BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)
BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund) (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,671 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($15,671). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $306
What BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund) does
Mission
Beginning of Year- Serve as a Scholarship Granting Organization for low-to-moderate income children in the state of Alabama. However, the program went dormant during the 2022-2023 school year. We are now repurposing the program to serve low-to-moderate income residents by enabling the supply and access of affordable housing in the Greater Western Birmingham community of Alabama.m
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
-Scholarshipped our final round of students in the 2022-2023 school year
$4,500 spentof which $98,500 as grants100% of program spending-Raised $23,500 in tax credit contributions
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $80k to $306 (−100%).
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.
100% of BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Derwin Jackson
Member (operationally Executive Director)
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.
Against its field
BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)'s revenue fell 80% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund): 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 BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)?
- BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund) (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,671 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($15,671). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund) have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,671 in grants to BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund).
- Who is the largest funder of BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund)?
- PLEDGELING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAMA BUILDS (formerly Bama Works Fund) 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 1 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