Alabama · Nonprofit
CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY
CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,686 to it, the largest being NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ($24,475). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $826k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Chom Inc of Tuscaloosa County does
Mission
Educational hands-on museum that exists to stimulate the curiosity of children about themselves and their place in the world. Our program reaches kids of all ages, from newborn through elementary students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our hands-on educational and other programs reach kids of all ages, from newborn through elementary students. With the assistance of volunteers who donated over 5,000 hours, we served children from schools and families across west alabama, as well as visitors from other states and nations that visit tuscaloosa.
$482,375 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $482,375.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $1.5M (−10%).
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 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 65% · 2021 42% · 2022 46% · 2023 34% · 2024 29% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35 → $47.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $1k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Power Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY’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
CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
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 CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
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 CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY: 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 CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY?
- CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,686 to it, the largest being NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ($24,475). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,686 in grants to CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY?
- NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY 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 3 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