Alabama · Nonprofit
BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE
BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,405 to it, the largest being THE JM KAPLAN FUND INC ($375,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Birmingham Civil Rights Institute does
Mission
Museum and education institute to enlighten each generation about civil and human rights by exploring our common past and working together in the present to build a better future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth services the institute is regularly visited by local school groups and residents from the local area. Over 12,0000 school residents from alabama visited the institute during 2019-2020. Over 300 youth have participated in the institutes award winning after school program, birmingham cultural alliance partnership bcap.
$1,061,453 spent69% of program spendingExhibits the institute is a place for heritage tourism and a center for community engagement. The permanent exhibit has been visited by over 4 million visitors since the institute opened in 1992. The institute has two changing exhibit galleries that highlight human right issues of the current time period. Visitors have access to all of the galleries during their paid tours. Overall attendance for the institute exceeds 140,000 annually.
$353,818 spent23% of program spendingOutreach to provide free educational progrms to k-12 students that introduce and explore the lessons of the civil rights movements. Most of bcris outreach programs were held at the institute or at schools in jefferson county. Nearly 1,400 youth and parents have participated in bcris after school and literacy programs. This includes both on and off-site activities.
$123,067 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,538,338.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.7M (+71%).
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: 2017 15% · 2020 63% · 2021 58% · 2022 55% · 2023 42% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $8k → $166k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $426k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham). These are real filings, and they are not money BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 74% · 2019 88% · 2020 50% · 2021 68% · 2022 41% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $611k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$450k
- Department of the Interior$92k
- Smithsonian Institution$35k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$23k
- Department of Justice$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS 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
54% 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 CIVIL RIGHTS 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 BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE?
- BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,405 to it, the largest being THE JM KAPLAN FUND INC ($375,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,415,405 in grants to BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE?
- THE JM KAPLAN FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing