Alabama · Nonprofit
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $924,854 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($698,354). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $925k
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Alabama Inc does
Mission
Seeking to put god's love into action. Habitat for humanity of southwest alabama brings people the opportunity to acquire housing and to have a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat works toward this mission by building strength, stability and self-reliance in partnership with families in need of decent and affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Habitat sold safe, affordable, and decent homes to low income families in the community. Habitat built new construction homes. Habitat used volunteer labor to help complete these projects. In addition, habitat provides maintenance and financial classes for partner families. Habitat provided critical home repairs for owner-occupied homes of low- ncome families in the community.
$2,004,951 spent$963,026 earned by the program84% of program spendingThe restore is a discount home improvement center that sells new and used home improvement items to the public and these funds are used to provide affordable housing solutions. In addition, the restore furthers the habitat mission by allowing families who do not have the funds to afford typical rehab opportunities fix up their homes. Restore also has an environmental component by keeping items that would typically end up in a landfill and having them be reused.
$385,029 spent$491,939 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,389,980.
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 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $10M (−31%).
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: 2017 19% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 29% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Courtney Rouse- Heinz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $104k → $125k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $179k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Partnership Housing of Southwest Alabama Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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.
How concentrated its funding is
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 2023 52% — 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 3 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hfhswa Funding Company LLC · disregarded
- Habitat for Humanity International · exempt
- Partnership Housing of Southwest Alabama · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $924,854 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($698,354). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $924,854 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $698,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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