Alabama · Nonprofit
Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc
Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $854k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc does
Mission
Technical assistance to disadvantaged businesses
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The BBRC provides business development services to small and disadvantaged businesses in the city of Birmingham and the surrounding MSA. The BBRC offered several seminars: How to Get Financing for Your Business and How to Market Your Business. These seminars are offered periodically and average 20-25 attendees.
$502,477 spent$455,956 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe mission of the Alabama Small Business Development Initiative is to sponsor programs that provide training and technical assistance to the emerging small business community, helping entrepreneurs and customers succeed while attracting more options for conventional financing
The AG Gaston Expo is an annual event created to increase the personal and business financial awareness of the local community using the principals espoused by Dr. A G Gaston. The conference has grown over the last 10 years and the last conference had over 200 attendees. The conference features awards, seminars and networking functions. Over the 2-day expo, there were seminars that attracted an average of 35 people per seminar.In particular, the seminar reaches out to African-American youth to expose them to Dr Gastons principles.
$23,718 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $502,477.
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 2019 to 2020, from $169k to $2.2M (+1231%).
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.
0% of Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $219k.
From the IRS filings of Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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
Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Birmingham Business Resource Center 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc?
- Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $400,000 in grants to Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Birmingham Business Resource Center Inc?
- MASTERCARD IMPACT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Birmingham Business Resource Center 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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