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JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,626,435 to it, the largest being LUCILLE S BEESON CHAR TR BOND MGMT ($1,857,124). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$16M
24/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Junior League of Birmingham Inc does

Mission

The junior league of birmingham is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Promoting voluntarism: for over 100 years, the junior league of birmingham has been a positive force for change in jefferson county. The jlb's approximately 1,500 trained volunteers collectively donate more than 40,000 hours of direct community service in birmingham each year.

    $420,860 spentof which $136,896 as grants
    32% of program spending

  2. Health and wellness: the junior league of birmingham believes improving health outcomes and overall well-being is fundamental to creating a vibrant community. Healthy children and adults are better able to learn and work productively. We believe preventive healthcare and healthy lifestyle choices are critical components of an individual's overall health.

    $357,519 spentof which $341,878 as grants
    27% of program spending

  3. Education and culture: the junior league of birmingham believes that education is the foundation to achieve one's full potential and all children should have access to a quality education that sparks and unlocks that potential. We also believe all individuals should have the opportunity to develop cultural competence by learning history, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different backgrounds.

    $200,890 spentof which $185,249 as grants
    15% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $355,944 spentof which $202,396 as grants
    27% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,335,213.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 113 ($2.0M) Expenses 98 ($1.5M) Net assets 103 ($15M)2019 Revenue 124 ($2.2M) Expenses 97 ($1.5M) Net assets 106 ($15M)2020 Revenue 97 ($1.7M) Expenses 84 ($1.3M) Net assets 110 ($16M)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.8M) Expenses 145 ($2.3M) Net assets 122 ($18M)2022 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 81 ($1.3M) Net assets 112 ($16M)2023 Revenue 91 ($1.6M) Expenses 94 ($1.5M) Net assets 111 ($16M)2024 Revenue 82 ($1.4M) Expenses 147 ($2.3M) Net assets 113 ($16M)2025 Revenue 77 ($1.3M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 114 ($16M)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (99)Net assets (114)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $18M (+11%).

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$15M
$16M
$16M
$18M
$16M
$16M
$18M
$17M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

61% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$163k
’17
$415k
’18
$631k
’19
$361k
’20
−$501k
’21
$469k
’22
$110k
’23
−$889k
’24
−$221k
’25
23
months of
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.

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Listed161517161618171716
Joined·+12+14+11+13+13+13+12+13
No longer listed·1312121311141214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $38k → $541k.

Funder
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funders
8
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15
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8

5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 31% · 2019 43% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.

“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

52% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

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MO
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NC
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $288k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve23.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM 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

Junior League of Montgomery Inc85%Leadership Birmingham Inc83%Elevate Birmingham81%Service Guild of Birmingham Inc81%Woman's Missionary Union Foundation78%The Junior League of Huntsville Inc78%Junior Achievement of Alabama Inc78%Techbirmingham78%

Nationally

The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc87%Junior League of Daytona Beach Inc87%Junior League of Denver Inc87%Junior League of Minneapolis Inc86%The Junior League of Boston Inc86%The Junior League of Buffalo Inc86%The Junior League of San Francisco Inc86%Junior League of Birmingham Mi Inc86%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC?
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,626,435 to it, the largest being LUCILLE S BEESON CHAR TR BOND MGMT ($1,857,124). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,626,435 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC?
LUCILLE S BEESON CHAR TR BOND MGMT is the largest funder on record, with $1,857,124 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM 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 38 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