Alabama · Nonprofit
INVISIBLE HISTORIES
INVISIBLE HISTORIES (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,884,519 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Invisible Histories does
Mission
The Invisible Histories project locates, preserves, researches, and creates for local communities an accessible collection of the rich and diverse history of lgbtq life in the us south. Currently, ihp collects in alabama, mississippi and georgia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Southern lgbtq history archiving: research, travel, partnership development, presentation, and collections of southern lgbtq history.
$142,075 spent38% of program spendingEducation and training: outreach efforts to enhance skill sets around community-based archiving and public history.
$141,106 spent38% of program spendingQueer history south conference: a national conference focused on best practices in southern lgbtq history and archiving.
$58,917 spent16% of program spendingOther program services
$32,904 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $375,002.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $155k to $2.1M (+1231%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of INVISIBLE HISTORIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $40k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INVISIBLE HISTORIES’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
INVISIBLE HISTORIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 50% — 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
20% of INVISIBLE HISTORIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
INVISIBLE HISTORIES draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
INVISIBLE HISTORIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like INVISIBLE HISTORIES
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 INVISIBLE HISTORIES: 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 INVISIBLE HISTORIES?
- INVISIBLE HISTORIES (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,884,519 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INVISIBLE HISTORIES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,884,519 in grants to INVISIBLE HISTORIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVISIBLE HISTORIES?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVISIBLE HISTORIES 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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