Alabama · Nonprofit
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,399,822 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($5,083,265). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama Inc does
Mission
To enable and motivate all youth within a safe environment to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens according to judeo-christian principles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Boys & girls clubs of central alabama (bgcca), the oldest boys & girls club in the southeast, has been serving children and teens ages 6 to 18 throughout birmingham and surrounding communities for more than 124 years. Today, bgcca operates 10 chartered club locations across jefferson, shelby, st. Clair, and walker counties, including brookside, hueytown, john a. Williamson, maddox intermediate, memorial park, montevallo, pell city, t.r. Simmons, warrior, and the tom and gean cleckler teen center. During 2025, bgcca served 1,911 unduplicated youth through high quality youth development programming focused on academic success, healthy lifestyles, and character and leadership development.
$2,659,444 spentof which $19,916 as grants$781,736 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn 2025, bgcca promoted healthy lifestyles for 1,911 unique youth through evidence based programs including triple play, healthy habits, daily challenges, social recreation, sports and recreation, swimming instruction, and other wellness initiatives. These programs encouraged members to develop healthy decision making skills, increase physical activity, and build lifelong healthy habits. As a result, 88% of members demonstrated increased knowledge on their healthy habits post assessment, reflecting measurable growth in their understanding of nutrition, wellness, and healthy lifestyle choices.
Academic success programs at bgcca prepare youth for graduation and success in college, technical education, military service, or meaningful careers. During 2025, 1,146 unique youth participated in project learn, with additional academic enrichment provided through power hour, stem education, sail, career launch, money matters, workforce on wheels, myfuture, and other evidence based learning opportunities. These programs provided homework assistance, literacy support, stem exploration, career readiness, and workforce development experiences that reinforced classroom learning. As a result, 98% of members reported they have a desire to learn new things, demonstrating a continued commitment to curiosity, lifelong learning, and academic achievement.
Character and leadership development programs at bgcca empower young people to become caring, responsible, and engaged citizens. During 2025, 1,220 unique youth participated in programs such as anti bullying, positive action, smart moves, smart girls, passport to manhood, torch club, keystone club, community service projects, youth of the month, and youth of the year. These experiences helped members build confidence, strengthen relationships, develop leadership abilities, and make positive contributions within their schools and communities. As a result, 89% of members reported they believe they possess leadership skills, demonstrating the organization's success in developing the next generation of community leaders.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,659,444.
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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $6.9M (−32%).
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 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 28% · 2020 16% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 31% · 2024 11% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Josh Hale
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $928k → $1.5M.
13 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 64% · 2020 62% · 2021 54% · 2022 53% · 2023 40% — 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
59% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
66% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $651k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,399,822 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($5,083,265). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $9,399,822 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,083,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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