Alabama · Nonprofit
IGNITE ALABAMA
IGNITE ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,500 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
IGNITE ALABAMA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Hugh Kaul Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
97% of IGNITE ALABAMA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $450k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 IGNITE ALABAMA’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
IGNITE ALABAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2023 78% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of IGNITE ALABAMA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
IGNITE ALABAMA draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAL · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hugh Kaul Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAL · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Gratitude Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAL · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Foundation of Alabamalocalportfolio matchAL · funds 51 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Forwardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councilsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McWane Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sybil Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hill Crest Foundation Incshared funderslocalAL · backs 107 organizations that share your funders · funds 125 organizations near you
- Junior League of Birmingham Incshared funderslocalAL · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 64 organizations near you
- Campbell Estelle S Char Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you
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 IGNITE ALABAMA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 IGNITE ALABAMA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IGNITE ALABAMA?
- IGNITE ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,500 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IGNITE ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,971,500 in grants to IGNITE ALABAMA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IGNITE ALABAMA?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IGNITE ALABAMA 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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