Alabama · Nonprofit
MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS
MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,783 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($793,855). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $801k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $136k
What Magic City Woodworks does
Mission
Magic City Woodworks dba: manufacture good serves young men in birmingham, alabama, with a focus on those facing significant life challenges and coming from under-resourced communities. Our apprentices represent a wide range of backgrounds, including individuals coming out of incarceration, recovery programs, foster care, unstable housing, and those simply lacking direction, support, or opportunity. Many have experienced long-term unemployment, educational gaps, or generational poverty. While our program is open to any young man seeking growth, we intentionally walk alongside those who have been overlooked by traditional systems. We provide not only practical job training and paid apprenticeships, but also mentorship, spiritual development, and the tools to build lasting change. The communities we serve are full of strengthresilience, untapped potential, and a deep hunger for transformation. However, they also face systemic challenges: limited access to stable employment, mental health
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Manufacture good operated a three-month paid apprenticeship program for young men in birmingham, providing hands-on training in woodworking , custom furniture manufacturing and firewood. Apprentices participated in daily shop work alongside experienced staff, gaining practical skills in craftsmanship, safety, and teamwork. The program also incorporated weekly lunch and learn sessions, where apprentices received mentorship, spiritual encouragement, and life-skills educationincluding financial literacy, goal-setting, and communication. Each apprentice was provided with necessary supplies such as personal protective equipment (ppe), work tools, water bottles, and a bible. We offered transportation support where needed and supplied lunch during educational sessions. Apprentices received a livable wage for their work, reinforcing the value of responsibility and consistency. In addition to training apprentices, our organization supported a team of shop staff and mentors who facilitated the program, maintained the curriculum, and provided one-on-one guidance. Through this holistic model, we aim not only to teach technical skills, but also to build confidence, character, and a foundation…
$697,404 spent$240,444 earned by the program90% of program spendingIn addition to our core apprenticeship program, manufacture good actively engaged with the broader birmingham community to promote our mission and invest in the lives of young men beyond our shop. Our team participated in various speaking engagements at churches, schools, local organizations, and business groups to share about our work, inspire others with stories of transformation, and build strategic partnerships. We also hosted community events, volunteer days, and open houses to connect supporters with our mission and provide opportunities for involvement. These efforts helped raise awareness, recruit new apprentices, and build relationships that strengthen the sustainability of our program. Staff and apprentices occasionally served together at local outreach efforts, further reinforcing the importance of giving back and being engaged citizens. Through these initiatives, we seek to be a positive presence in the city and to invite others into the life-changing work happening at manufacture good.
$77,489 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $774,893.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $701k to $987k (+41%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Matthew Hinshaw
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $130k → $216k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS’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
MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 73% · 2019 81% · 2020 41% · 2021 61% · 2022 58% · 2023 91% — 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
30% of MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
81% of MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $310k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS's revenue fell 15% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS
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
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Manufacture Good LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS: 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 MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS?
- MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS (Alabama) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,783 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($793,855). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,662,783 in grants to MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $793,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAGIC CITY WOODWORKS 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 2019–2025), 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