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BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION

BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,479 to it, the largest being Luke 638 Foundation ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$278k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$585k
Net assets
$2.5M
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Birmingham Kiwanis Foundation does

Mission

To administer the funds and the income of the foundation in legal and legitimate ways, to those charitable, educational, religious, literary and scientific causes selected by the board of directors to further the civic and community service objectives of the foundation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing grants to charitable organizations and scholarships to individuals.

    $161,213 spentof which $145,213 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,213.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($6.8M)2018 Revenue 10 ($437k) Expenses 116 ($210k) Net assets 99 ($6.7M)2019 Revenue 18 ($774k) Expenses 121 ($219k) Net assets 111 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 11 ($459k) Expenses 64 ($115k) Net assets 119 ($8.1M)2021 Revenue 10 ($416k) Expenses 101 ($182k) Net assets 122 ($8.3M)2022 Revenue 3 ($131k) Expenses 3219 ($5.8M) Net assets 32 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 2 ($82k) Expenses 63 ($114k) Net assets 34 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 3 ($128k) Expenses 75 ($136k) Net assets 37 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 7 ($278k) Expenses 95 ($172k) Net assets 38 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (7)Expenses (95)Net assets (38)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $8.3M to $2.2M (−73%).

$7.9M
$9.5M
$9.6M
$9.4M
$8.3M
$2.2M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

31% of BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.1M
’17
$228k
’18
$555k
’19
$344k
’20
$234k
’21
−$5.7M
’22
−$32k
’23
−$8k
’24
$106k
’25
12
months of
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

Honora Gathings

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed192020211723232324
Joined·+10+9+9+5+11+11+0+14
No longer listed·9989511013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $279k → $27.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $409k from 2 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 KIWANIS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION’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 KIWANIS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 96% · 2022 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.

How long its funders stay

13% of BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

52% of BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

DE
NC
AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−29% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

62%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Kiwanis Club of Birmingham · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION?
BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,479 to it, the largest being Luke 638 Foundation ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $585,479 in grants to BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION?
Luke 638 Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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