Alabama · Nonprofit
HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND
HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,350 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $249k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Huntsville Bail Fund does
Mission
To promote solutions that reduce jail populations and improve community safety, and provide direct aid and advocacy to arrested individuals and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Operated a pilot court observation program to collect quantitative and qualitative data on municipal court arraignments and specialized service courts. Staff recorded approximately 800 individual arraignment hearings over a three month period to document case outcomes and barriers to pretrial freedom.
$19,693 spent45% of program spendingOperated leadership development program benefiting approximately 20 justice-impacted individuals, including community members, staff, board, and volunteers. Provided intensive training and workshops on liberatory leadership, event safety, legal observation, and community organizing to strengthen local capacity for grassroots safety work.
$19,250 spent44% of program spendingProvided community safety support at over a dozen public events and mutual aid sites, and carried out advocacy work including stakeholder education, informational presentations at municipal and county meetings, coalition community advocacy days, and collaborating with partners to advance community based safety solutions.
$5,180 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,123.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $64k to $78k (+22%).
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.
100% of HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tahirih Osborne
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $37k → $130k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND’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
HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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
HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND draws 100% 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. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND: 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 HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND?
- HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,350 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $249,350 in grants to HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNTSVILLE BAIL FUND 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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