Alabama · Nonprofit
BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE
BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,000 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $632k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $855k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Baron Critical Weather Institute does
Mission
Class weather instrumentation in support of public safety, educational outreach, and economic development. The area of the tennessee valley and state of alabama has all the natural opportunities for substantial study into transportation weather and research and development but does not currently have access to world class instrumentation. The institute is dedicated to organizing currently available instrumentation in real time as well as developing real time weather networks on land, navigable waterways and other. The institute is dedicated to educational outreach and will be responsible for a hands-on exhibit which allows citizens and scientists to understand how instrumentation assists in "knowing the weather". The institute will contribute data and research into the ongoing statewide effort to enhance public safety.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Develop, coordinate and support world class instrumentation across the state.
$55,369 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,369.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $865k to $2.5M (+188%).
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: 2022 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $150k → $500k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE’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
BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 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
70% of BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE'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 $255k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $600k 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
BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE
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
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE: 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 BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE?
- BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,000 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $855,000 in grants to BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE?
- Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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