Alabama · Nonprofit
MAIN STREET ALABAMA
MAIN STREET ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,211,375 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY ALABAMA INC ($554,367). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Main Street Alabama does
Mission
To educate citizens about ways to revitalize and preserve their small town downtowns and urban neighborhood commercial centers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Network: the network is an introductory level for communities who care about their historic downtown or neighborhood commercial district and are interested in learning more about the main street approach. Communities at this level will receive assistance from Main Street Alabama on organizing a public/private partnership to share their desire for an improved district and begin needed conversaions. Onboarding new designated main street districts: providing strategic plans, market studies, and branding quarterly training and annual main street conference: provide training to all interested webinar - placemaking and public art planning in person training - the economics of historic preservation webinar - marketing tips and tactics from photography to social media in person training - mobile workshop - anniston, heflin and oxford lab - Main Street Alabama annual conference and awards of excellence on main street main street 2.0 services for main street programs: capital stacking - how to build the funding stack for larger, more complicated projects in main street districts district development planning - conceptual planning process that is holistic in nature, provides copious visuals…
$2,068,575 spentof which $490,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,068,575.
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 2022 to 2023, from $445k to $1.5M (+236%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 36% · 2019 49% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 48% · 2023 76% · 2024 79% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MAIN STREET ALABAMA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $445k.
2 of 16 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 MAIN STREET ALABAMA’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
MAIN STREET ALABAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 MAIN STREET ALABAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 74% · 2019 53% · 2020 33% · 2021 29% · 2022 86% · 2023 61% — 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
50% of MAIN STREET ALABAMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
94% of MAIN STREET ALABAMA's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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
MAIN STREET ALABAMA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MAIN STREET ALABAMA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Small Business Administration$700k
- Department of Agriculture$327k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$21k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAIN STREET ALABAMA
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAIN STREET ALABAMA: 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 MAIN STREET ALABAMA?
- MAIN STREET ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,211,375 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY ALABAMA INC ($554,367). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAIN STREET ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,211,375 in grants to MAIN STREET ALABAMA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET ALABAMA?
- OPPORTUNITY ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $554,367 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STREET ALABAMA 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 16 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