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Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc

Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$63k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$26k
Grants received
$563k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve84.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2022 Revenue 191 ($178k) Expenses 144 ($127k) Net assets 224 ($51k)2023 Revenue 570 ($531k) Expenses 64 ($56k) Net assets 2329 ($525k)2024 Revenue 67 ($63k) Expenses 73 ($65k) Net assets 2496 ($563k)
2017202220232024
Revenue (67)Expenses (73)Net assets (2496)Peer revenue range

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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 94% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
17
$51k
22
$475k
23
$2k
24
85
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $1k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)96% 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 Friends of African American Heritage Trail 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

Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100%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.

Where its funders are

96% of Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alabama funders.

AL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

0%

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 Friends of African American Heritage Trail 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 Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc?
Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,000 in grants to Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of African American Heritage Trail 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.

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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing