Alabama · Nonprofit
FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY
FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,160 to it, the largest being SOULS GROWN DEEP COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ($133,339). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $669k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $418k
- Net assets
- $873k
What Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy does
Mission
Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy was created to ensure the heroic, historic, innovative, artisitic and incredible odds-beating work of the women of the original fqb isn't lost to history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's present activities are pursuant to their goals to celebrate and teach about the work and accomplishments of those women (and men) past, present, and future, who made the bee such a powerful artistic and community force; to offer real economic opportunities for a new generation of quilt makers and artisans; to provide solutions to community needs, such as internet access and voter registration for those who otherwise couldn't access it; to advance plans to draw tourism to the area and offer a deeper experience of the fqb legacy history and current activities, with shops, lodging, classes and interactive exhibits; and to preserve the past and evolve into the future by creating jobs, building wealth and teaching life skills to enhance our community. The executive director donates her services to the organization. The value of these services is $180,000.
$292,549 spent$90,283 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $292,549.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $680k to $959k (+41%).
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 25% · 2024 7% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Kim Kelly
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $43k → $45k.
From the IRS filings of FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY’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
FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY draws 86% 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. 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
FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY: 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 FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY?
- FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,160 to it, the largest being SOULS GROWN DEEP COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ($133,339). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $418,160 in grants to FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY?
- SOULS GROWN DEEP COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC is the largest funder on record, with $133,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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