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COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC

COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC (Alabama) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,135,531 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION ($295,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$601k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$666k
19/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Community Furniture Bank Inc does

Mission

To receive and distribute furniture and home furnishings to those in transitional housing or in need of help in setting up housekeeping. Unique to this effort is the ability to deliver and distribute items, not just to offer pickup of donated items.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Distribution of furniture and home furnishings to recipients in transitional housing due to former homelessness or other personal situations in need.

    $572,483 spentof which $227,239 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $572,483.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($538k) Expenses 100 ($532k) Net assets 100 ($511k)2018 Revenue 112 ($605k) Expenses 111 ($591k) Net assets 103 ($525k)2019 Revenue 96 ($515k) Expenses 106 ($563k) Net assets 93 ($477k)2020 Revenue 117 ($632k) Expenses 94 ($500k) Net assets 119 ($606k)2021 Revenue 111 ($598k) Expenses 98 ($523k) Net assets 131 ($670k)2022 Revenue 117 ($631k) Expenses 122 ($650k) Net assets 123 ($628k)2023 Revenue 111 ($600k) Expenses 112 ($597k) Net assets 123 ($626k)2024 Revenue 112 ($601k) Expenses 106 ($562k) Net assets 130 ($666k)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (106)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $478k to $648k (+36%).

$512k
$525k
$478k
$648k
$671k
$630k
$627k
$666k
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$14k
’18
−$48k
’19
$132k
’20
$74k
’21
−$19k
’22
$3k
’23
$39k
’24
9.1
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

Chris Yarboro

Executive director

Board chair

Mike Graham

Director-chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed77777776
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $90k → $139k.

6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC’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

COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

34% 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 COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC.

26%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 39% · 2019 50% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% — 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

71% of COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

67% of COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

NY
NV
AL
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve9.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC?
COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC (Alabama) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,135,531 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION ($295,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,135,531 in grants to COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC?
CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK 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.

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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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