Alabama · Nonprofit
BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP
BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,548 to it, the largest being THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Blackbelt Benefit Group does
Mission
To promote charitable and educational community enrichment in Selma Alabama by organizing and supporting cultural and fundraising events including Riboff Chili Cook-Off and Art Jam providing disaster relief and recovery assistance and awarding scholarships to under-served youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization provided community support and charitable assistance throughout the year including disaster recovery aid shelter support and direct financial assistance to individuals and families in need within the Blackbelt region.
$0 spentThe organization facilitated cultural engagement and community enrichment through events such as Art Jam Rockin Riboff and the Alabama River Chili Cookoff which promote local arts food culture and community involvement while supporting charitable missions.
$0 spentThe organization supported youth education and development through scholarship funding community partnerships and contributions to programs such as Rotary youth scholarships and regional outdoor education initiatives.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 $67k to $109k (+63%).
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.
88% of BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $45.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP’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
BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 93% · 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
52% of BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $348 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
BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP?
- BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,548 to it, the largest being THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $72,548 in grants to BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP?
- THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACKBELT BENEFIT GROUP 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 6 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