Alabama · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC
LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,450 to it, the largest being PROTECTIVE LIFE FOUNDATION ($65,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $556k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $486k
What Leadership Birmingham Inc does
Mission
Leadership birmingham educates and empowers community leaders to create meaningful civic change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For the 2024-2025 program year, leadership birmingham provided over 270 hours of engaging educational content to a class of 58 leaders from the corporate, civic, small business, community, creative, nonprofit, healthcare, judicial, government, religious and academic institutions, sectors, and communities. The leadership birmingham class of 2025 was exposed to our area's critical issues in education, economic development, justice, local and regional government, health, human services, and quality of life through visits to 35 sites and meeting with over 326 experts. They discussed and debated our community's issues, developed lasting relationships, and collaborated on six group projects that positively impact the greater birmingham community and its people.
$257,494 spent$147,344 earned by the program62% of program spendingIn the 2024-2025 program year, youth leadership birmingham provided over 85 hours of engaging educational content to a class of 43 high school sophomores and juniors representing 22 schools from the greater birmingham area. The ylb class of 2025 learned about critical issues in government, human services, the arts, economic development, and education from over 70 community experts at 24 local sites. Ylb class members received an additional ten hours of training in leadership development, civic responsibility, time management, and college readiness and preparation. The ylb class of 2025 developed deep friendships, expanded their personal networks, and developed the knowledge and desire for deeper civic engagement and action.
$84,663 spent20% of program spendingThe members association is made up of the 1,700 program alumni and continues the networking, education, communication, and inspiration that leadership birmingham class members experienced during their program year. During the 2024-2025 program year, the association hosted five educational and social events for its members and classes hosted several reunion events. The members association also published the winter 2024 issue of leadership birmingham magazine featuring stories about greater birmingham's economic development, trends in healthcare, the rebrand of youth leadership forum to youth leadership birmingham, and more.
$75,017 spent$53,350 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $417,174.
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 2024 to 2025, from $409k to $501k (+23%).
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.
63% of LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
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
Libba Vaughan
Executive director
Board chair
Mr William D Ritter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $36k.
1 of 17 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $107k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC’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
LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 49% · 2019 62% · 2020 48% · 2021 77% · 2022 53% · 2023 28% — 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
44% of LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
96% of LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $550 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEADERSHIP 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC?
- LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,450 to it, the largest being PROTECTIVE LIFE FOUNDATION ($65,250). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $156,450 in grants to LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP BIRMINGHAM INC?
- PROTECTIVE LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP 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.
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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 17 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