Alabama · Nonprofit
FRESH AIR FAMILY INC
FRESH AIR FAMILY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,183 to it, the largest being THE SOLON AND MARTHA DIXON FD ($55,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Fresh Air Family Inc does
Mission
| Explanation:| OUR FOUNDATIONAL GOAL: In search of nature we find family. Our mission is to teach everyone that each and every living thing deserves respect. FRESH AIR FAMILY is dedicated to environmental and scientific education strengthening families youth and communities through a connection to and appreciation of the beauty and biodiversity of nature. To provide outdoor science education as a means for children especially the underserved children to develop good health in mind and body and to ensure a bright future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Gross Out Camp expanded in 2023 to 22 locations with 64 weeks of camp many of them in low-income areas. Camps stretch across Alabama and reach as far as North Tonawanda New York. During Summer 2023 42.18 % of our 1,526 campers received financial aid to pay for Gross Out Camp totaling $48,280 in aid. Nearly 200 special needs children teens and adults were served with our summer programs for free. Some of our campers are living in shelters foster homes and with struggling grandparents. Several live with a single parent battling cancer or another debilitating disease. A few lost a parent to death. One camper came home to find both parents dead from a murder suicide. Some campers are the children of disabled veterans; one is the child of a policeman who took a bullet and never fully recovered. Many live with hard-working parents who still cant make ends meet.
$373,000 spent$247,989 earned by the program97% of program spendingAfterschool programs in 2023 were operated throughout the school year serving 40 children. Children participated in our award-winning science program with a total of nearly 1,000 instructional hours. A diverse group populated our students who studied outdoors and through science experiments.
$7,691 spent$5,181 earned by the program2% of program spendingSchool Field trips hosted 440 children during 2023. One Title I school attended using financial aid for the 80 children participating. We offered 30 family field trips attended by 480 participants. We maintain a comprehensive statewide calendar of outdoor educational programs provided by Fresh Air Family and its partners. We produce a weekly newsletter with on average 50 events per week to 8,000 families. Our readership is 48%. We offer this service to encourage more families to enjoy the outdoors and to learn more about science and the environment.
$3,845 spent$2,590 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $384,536.
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 2022 to 2023, from $64k to $81k (+27%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of FRESH AIR FAMILY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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
Verna Gates
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $76k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FRESH AIR FAMILY 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
FRESH AIR FAMILY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 71% · 2023 46% — 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
33% of FRESH AIR FAMILY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
97% of FRESH AIR FAMILY INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
FRESH AIR FAMILY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRESH AIR FAMILY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 FRESH AIR FAMILY INC: 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 FRESH AIR FAMILY INC?
- FRESH AIR FAMILY INC (Alabama) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,183 to it, the largest being THE SOLON AND MARTHA DIXON FD ($55,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH AIR FAMILY INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $232,183 in grants to FRESH AIR FAMILY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH AIR FAMILY INC?
- THE SOLON AND MARTHA DIXON FD is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH AIR FAMILY 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 13 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