Alabama · Nonprofit
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,652 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,138,352). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $561k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $284k
What Dubois Institute for Entrepreneurship does
Mission
Sustainable urban agriculture and gardens are tools to uplift communities improves lives and drive advocacy for improving public and local food policy. The project increases access to fresh affordable fruits and vegetables. Our garden operation provides a working model used by the community as a template for growing food at home, and works with children and families to teach, entertain and inspirit make healthy food choices. We provide SNAP, diabetes education and informal science class on how to grow vegetables. The garden provides technical training and education for home gardeners and folks new to agriculture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
USDA FARMER EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF NEW AND BEGINNING FARMERS. 21st century farming is moving toward small scale production, highly profitable and highly healthy agriculture firms. Our operation provides a hub for educating these new and beginning with the technical assistance required to be successful.
$21,747 spentof which $21,747 as grants5% of program spendingCOMMUNITY GARDEN AND WELLNESS PROGRAM. Every household should grow whole foods at home. In America today the greatest challenge in the at risk community is access to safe affordable place to live and healthy food. Our program starts with education the children and builds on this important outreach.
$38,663 spentof which $15,000 as grants$20,437 earned by the program8% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$420,074 spentof which $372,474 as grants$47,600 earned by the program87% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $480,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $328k to $284k (−13%).
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: 2023 27% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Michael Jackson
Executive Director & President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $328k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP’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
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 62% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 61% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k 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
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP has grown faster than half of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $385k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$385k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: 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 DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
- DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,652 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,138,352). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,011,652 in grants to DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,138,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 9 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