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DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC

DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $115 to it, the largest being Skyros Benevolent Society ($115). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$204k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$115
Net assets
$279k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Downtown Mobile Alliance Inc does

Mission

To sustain and grow the business district of downtown mobile, alabama through marketing and advocacy and the management of business improvement district services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The marketing services program serves a metropolitan area of 594,000 residents and a visitor domain that receives approximately 3 million visitors per year. Downtown mobile alliance provides information and materials that promote events, attractions and activities, economic and business development opportunities, and residential options. As a member organization, dma is able to provide promotion and advocacy services to hundreds of downtown businesses and non-profit corporations.

    $59,280 spent
    32% of program spending

  2. The economic development and research services program sponsors events that bring together the business community and community leaders, as well as community events that bring hundreds of families to the downtown area. Dma's economic development effort also includes a package of retail incentives designed to encourage new merchants to open shops downtown. Dma also funds studies and assessments to guide property owners, business owners, and policymakers as they plan for an environmentally sustainable downtown.

    $56,142 spent
    30% of program spending

  3. Fund and manage mobilize, a competitive micro-grant program designed to enliven the public realm with events, public art and other permanent or temporary activations.

    $69,872 spent
    38% of program spending

  4. Other

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,294.

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 ($168k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($328k)2018 Revenue 91 ($154k) Expenses 115 ($160k) Net assets 98 ($322k)2019 Revenue 90 ($152k) Expenses 79 ($110k) Net assets 111 ($364k)2020 Revenue 85 ($143k) Expenses 79 ($111k) Net assets 121 ($396k)2021 Revenue 132 ($223k) Expenses 115 ($160k) Net assets 140 ($459k)2022 Revenue 115 ($194k) Expenses 195 ($271k) Net assets 116 ($382k)2023 Revenue 132 ($222k) Expenses 146 ($203k) Net assets 123 ($402k)2024 Revenue 87 ($146k) Expenses 192 ($268k) Net assets 86 ($281k)2025 Revenue 121 ($204k) Expenses 147 ($205k) Net assets 85 ($279k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (147)Net assets (85)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 2023 to 2024, from $410k to $281k (−32%).

$328k
$322k
$364k
$396k
$459k
$382k
$410k
$281k
$280k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’17
−$7k
’18
$42k
’19
$33k
’20
$63k
’21
−$77k
’22
$19k
’23
−$122k
’24
−$1k
’25
15
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

Fred Rendfrey

Pres. & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202120232025
Listed383829
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $45 → $70.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

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

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’19
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

Against its field

DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve14.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE 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

Main Street Mobile Inc80%Mobile Carnival Association Inc80%Downtown Gadsden Inc78%Downtown Jasper Business Association78%Main Street Alabama78%Wetumpka Downtown78%Main Street Atmore78%Main Street Scottsboro77%

Nationally

Main Street Mobile Inc80%Downtown Camp Hill Association80%Downtown Troy Business Improvement District Foundation Inc80%Downtown Raleigh Alliance Inc80%Dallas Downtown Association80%Mobile Carnival Association Inc80%Howell Main Street Inc80%Del Mar Village Association Inc79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC?
DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $115 to it, the largest being Skyros Benevolent Society ($115). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $115 in grants to DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE INC?
Skyros Benevolent Society is the largest funder on record, with $115 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNTOWN MOBILE ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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