Alabama · Nonprofit
BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL
BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,016 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Protective Life Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocal
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
87% of BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $16.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL’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
BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
67% 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 BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
67% of BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Protective Life Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAL · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pi Beta Phi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Power Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jones Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Je and Marjorie B Pittman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Featheringill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The J K Lowder Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hackney Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Welch Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Solon and Martha Dixon Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL
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.
Public support
95%
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 CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL: 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 BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL?
- BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,016 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,016 in grants to BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIRMINGHAM CHAPTER LES DAMES DESCOFFIER INTERNATIONAL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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