Alabama · Nonprofit
KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM
KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,000 to it, the largest being THE JAMES MILTON AND SALLIE R JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $675k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $290k
What Kiwanis Club of Birmingham does
Mission
Precept and example, a more intelligent, active and serviceable citizenship. To provide, through kiwanis club, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build better communities. To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kiwanis centennial park: the new plaza and fountain in kiwaniscentennial park reconnects vulcan to downtown birmingham physically. Itincludes landscaping the north side of the park, renovating the lowerpiazza entrance and building a fountain and steps for walking accessfrom the north side to the statue itself. Visitors can now accessvulcan from the north side of the park via new steps leading fromkiwanis centennial park. Kiwanis also restored the original wpa stonesteps located at the new plaza and fountain. Vulcan park and theKiwanis Club of Birmingham have been tied together since the 1930s whenthe kiwanis club became the key driver behind the creation of vulcanpark as a unifying symbol of the city's can-do spirit.
$567,894 spent$631,954 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $567,894.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $372k to $450k (+21%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Honora Gathings
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM’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
KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2017 83% · 2019 71% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Birmingham Kiwanis Foundation · exempt
- Kiwanis International Inc · exempt
- Civic Club Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM: 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 KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM?
- KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,000 to it, the largest being THE JAMES MILTON AND SALLIE R JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,000 in grants to KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM?
- THE JAMES MILTON AND SALLIE R JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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