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CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS

CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$331k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$0
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Central Alabama Works does

Mission

To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To promote workforce development

    $377,935 spent$26,522 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $377,935.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($152k) Net assets -7 ($-15014)2019 Revenue 312 ($412k) Expenses 199 ($303k) Net assets 100 ($215k)2020 Revenue 284 ($376k) Expenses 219 ($333k) Net assets 120 ($258k)2021 Revenue 298 ($394k) Expenses 205 ($311k) Net assets 159 ($341k)2022 Revenue 477 ($631k) Expenses 372 ($564k) Net assets 190 ($407k)2023 Revenue 405 ($536k) Expenses 338 ($514k) Net assets 198 ($426k)2024 Revenue 524 ($693k) Expenses 534 ($811k) Net assets 143 ($308k)2025 Revenue 250 ($331k) Expenses 421 ($639k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (250)Expenses (421)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $320k to $0 (−100%).

$3k
$225k
$270k
$356k
$430k
$437k
$320k
$0
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 33% · 2019 72% · 2020 89% · 2021 73% · 2022 78% · 2023 85% · 2024 86% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
$110k
’19
$43k
’20
$83k
’21
$67k
’22
$22k
’23
−$118k
’24
−$308k
’25
4.7
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

Gindi Prutzman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2613141411121212
Joined··+1+0+3+6+5+0
No longer listed··006550
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $5k.

Funder
'19
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS’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

CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

38% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 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

63% of CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

MO
AL

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

’19
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS

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

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS: 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS?
CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS?
ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL ALABAMA WORKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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