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CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,241 to it, the largest being Education Freedom Alabama ($174,563). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Valley United Fund Inclocal
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio match
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 13% · 2022 7% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $78k.
1 of 4 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.
From the IRS filings of CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL 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
CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
100% 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 CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 37% · 2022 47% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Valley United Fund InclocalGA · funds 4 organizations near you
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanangel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Nashville Fundingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Naturebridgeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round It Up America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montgomery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,241 to it, the largest being Education Freedom Alabama ($174,563). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $401,241 in grants to CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- Education Freedom Alabama is the largest funder on record, with $174,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAMBERS CO EDUCATIONAL 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing