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FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION

FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,811 to it, the largest being DUNBAR FAMILY FOUNDATION DIMA ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$122k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$245k
Net assets
$133k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Friends of Hale County Foundation does

Mission

To assist the people of poverty stricken west alabama with business, cultural, educational and economic development of the area.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Benevolence to underpriveledged areas of alabama

    $67,303 spent
    44% of program spending

  2. Educational support, supplies and books for schools

    $74,476 spent
    49% of program spending

  3. County missions

    $11,182 spent
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,961.

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 ($143k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($64)2018 Revenue 98 ($139k) Expenses 105 ($151k) Net assets -18473 ($-11823)2019 Revenue 106 ($151k) Expenses 92 ($133k) Net assets 10225 ($7k)2020 Revenue 101 ($144k) Expenses 79 ($113k) Net assets 57627 ($37k)2021 Revenue 139 ($198k) Expenses 54 ($77k) Net assets 246273 ($158k)2022 Revenue 47 ($67k) Expenses 58 ($84k) Net assets 220659 ($141k)2023 Revenue 93 ($132k) Expenses 54 ($77k) Net assets 306611 ($196k)2024 Revenue 85 ($122k) Expenses 129 ($185k) Net assets 207536 ($133k)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (129)Net assets (207536)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 2020 to 2021, from $37k to $158k (+323%).

$8k
$4k
$7k
$37k
$158k
$141k
$196k
$133k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

66% of FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
−$12k
’18
$18k
’19
$30k
’20
$121k
’21
−$16k
’22
$55k
’23
−$63k
’24
1.8
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.

2021202220232024
Listed1111
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $30k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
2
1
2
2
2
3
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1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION’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 HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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

FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state in all.

NJ

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

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’22
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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION

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

Hale Empowerment & Revitalzation Organization Inc76%Jefferson County Farmers Federation Foundation75%Friends of the Halstead Inc75%Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation75%Friends of McCalla Inc75%Community Foundation of West Alabama75%Mission Alabama74%Alabama Council on Human Relations Inc73%

Nationally

Haywood County Schools Foundation76%Hale Empowerment & Revitalzation Organization Inc76%John William Hale Foundation75%Jefferson County Farmers Federation Foundation75%Walton Education Foundation In75%Friends of the Halstead Inc75%Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation75%Lamar Community College Foundation75%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION?
FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,811 to it, the largest being DUNBAR FAMILY FOUNDATION DIMA ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $244,811 in grants to FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION?
DUNBAR FAMILY FOUNDATION DIMA is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF HALE COUNTY FOUNDATION 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 3 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