Alabama · Nonprofit
LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC
LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,751 to it, the largest being ORLEAN & RALPH W BEESON FUND ($292,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $690k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $385k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Living River a Retreat on the Cahaba Inc does
Mission
To assist the presbytery of sheppards and lapsley in accomplishing the purposes for which it was formed and to acquire, construct, equip and operate a camp and conference center for the said presbytery, along the cahaba river in shelby and bibb counties, alabama.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The operation of camp facilities and development of a planned conference center along the cahaba river in bibb and shelby counties.
$629,099 spent$126,832 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe operation of camp facilities and development of a planned conference center along the cahaba river in bibb and shelby counties.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $629,099.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.8M to $8.2M (−8%).
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.
62% of LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $54k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA 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
LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA 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. $67k 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
LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC is better cushioned than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC: 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 LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC?
- LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,751 to it, the largest being ORLEAN & RALPH W BEESON FUND ($292,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $384,751 in grants to LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA INC?
- ORLEAN & RALPH W BEESON FUND is the largest funder on record, with $292,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING RIVER A RETREAT ON THE CAHABA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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