Alabama · Nonprofit
Impact America
Impact America (Alabama) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,591,576 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($405,750). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $455k
What Impact America does
Mission
Impact America is committed to improving lives by engaging, empowering, and supporting access to critical resources needed by individuals, families, and local communities through its health, education, and financial initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Americorps related expenses.
$550,508 spent34% of program spendingFocusfirst: A High-Tech Vision Care initiative provides a cost-effective direct response to the vision problems of preschool-aged children who live in urban and rural communities - providing free vision screenings to children in Head Starts and daycares using high-tech digital screening cameras. All children failing the screenings receive free or subsidized follow-up care.
$632,258 spent39% of program spendingSavefirst: A High-Quality Tax Preparation Initiative that trains college graduate, and law students to provide free tax preparation services to low-income working families - especially targeting those eligible for the earned income tax credit.
$414,577 spentof which $22,509 as grants25% of program spendingSpeakFirst: An Alabama Student Debate Initiative that enriches the academic experience of talented and motivated students from the Birmingham area schools through participation in an "All-Star" debate team and preparatory program.
$33,409 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,630,752.
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 $2.0M to $1.3M (−35%).
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 53% · 2018 47% · 2019 44% · 2020 33% · 2021 87% · 2022 74% · 2023 76% · 2024 83% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Impact America’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Melanie Rhodes
Executive Director
Board chair
Rob Couch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $242k → $196k.
12 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Impact America’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Impact America has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
59% 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 Impact America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 24% · 2019 35% · 2020 54% · 2021 36% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% — 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
32% of Impact America's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
59% of Impact America's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Impact America's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Impact America receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.3M
- Department of the Treasury$1.8M
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 Impact America
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Impact America: 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 Impact America?
- Impact America (Alabama) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,591,576 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($405,750). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Impact America have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,591,576 in grants to Impact America, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Impact America?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM is the largest funder on record, with $405,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Impact America 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 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing