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GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL

GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($29). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.0M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$29
Net assets
$1.7M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Gadsden Etowah County Progress Council does

Mission

The gadsden etowah county head start program will nurture and advocate for children and families. The council provides a safe and happy environment while molding young minds for future learning. The council strives to develop well-rounded individuals who have positive self-esteem and who will become valuable and productive members of society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Head start/early head start program: the gadsden-etowah county progress council nurtured and advocated for 319 children through the head start and early head start programs. The council provided a safe and happy environment, using a creative curriculum to provide quality service to the children we serve, preparing them for the next level of learning. The council strove to develop well-rounded, life-long individuals with positive self-esteem that will become valuable and productive members of society utilizing all of our service areas: health, mental health, nutrition, and parent-family-community engagement.

    $3,107,739 spent$12,033 earned by the program
    89% of program spending

  2. Food services program: during the fiscal year, approximately 294 children participating in the head start and early head start programs were served healthy, nutritious snacks and lunch through assistance from usda's child nutrition program.

    $386,803 spent
    11% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,494,542.

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 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($386k)2018 Revenue 103 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 108 ($418k)2019 Revenue 102 ($3.8M) Expenses 102 ($3.8M) Net assets 94 ($365k)2020 Revenue 103 ($3.8M) Expenses 102 ($3.8M) Net assets 82 ($316k)2021 Revenue 113 ($4.2M) Expenses 105 ($3.9M) Net assets 148 ($573k)2022 Revenue 137 ($5.0M) Expenses 119 ($4.5M) Net assets 300 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 137 ($5.1M) Expenses 135 ($5.1M) Net assets 293 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 124 ($4.6M) Expenses 120 ($4.5M) Net assets 300 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 136 ($5.0M) Expenses 118 ($4.5M) Net assets 449 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (118)Net assets (449)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $2.3M (+126%).

$480k
$469k
$552k
$563k
$1.0M
$2.3M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$2.3M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

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Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$75k
’17
$35k
’18
−$56k
’19
−$39k
’20
$240k
’21
$580k
’22
−$24k
’23
$60k
’24
$575k
’25
0.4
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.

Chief executive

Herlecia Hampton

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Joined·+1+0+1+2+1+1+1+1
No longer listed·20011201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.

Funder
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total
funders
1
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1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.5M on record.

Federal$38.5M
grants $38.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$38.5M

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 GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL

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

Alabama Golf Association Inc83%The Center for Executive Leadership Inc83%Downtown Rescue Mission Inc82%Family Security Credit Union80%Pathways Professional Counseling80%Alabama Gymnastics Education Foundation80%Make Way Partners Inc80%Alabama Credit Union Foundation Inc79%

Nationally

Gadsden Arts Inc83%Alabama Golf Association Inc83%The Center for Executive Leadership Inc83%Federal Alliance for Safe Homes Inc82%Downtown Rescue Mission Inc82%Tennessee Technology Development Corp81%East Dallas Developmental Center81%Hill Country Family Services Inc81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL: 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 GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL?
GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($29). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29 in grants to GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $29 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GADSDEN ETOWAH COUNTY PROGRESS COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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