Skip to content

Alabama · Nonprofit

Newcomen Society of Alabama

Newcomen Society of Alabama (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,775 to it, the largest being ALTECSTYSLINGER FOUNDATION ($5,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$82k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$0
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Newcomen Society of Alabama does

Mission

To promote education, study, and research in the fields of history, arts, science, crafts, and in the literary, spiritual and moral development of American life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To recognize business leaders and promote business in the community by making charitable contributions to other 501(c)(3) organizations in recognition of these leaders.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 92 ($102k) Expenses 117 ($118k) Net assets 61 ($25k)2019 Revenue 101 ($111k) Expenses 80 ($81k) Net assets 135 ($55k)2020 Revenue 13 ($14k) Expenses 25 ($25k) Net assets 108 ($44k)2021 Revenue 78 ($86k) Expenses 79 ($80k) Net assets 124 ($50k)2022 Revenue 65 ($72k) Expenses 83 ($84k) Net assets 94 ($38k)2023 Revenue 56 ($61k) Expenses 71 ($72k) Net assets 68 ($28k)2024 Revenue 74 ($82k) Expenses 108 ($109k) Net assets 0 ($0)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (74)Expenses (108)Net assets (0)

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 $25k to $55k (+123%).

$41k
$25k
$55k
$44k
$50k
$38k
$28k
$0
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
−$16k
’18
$30k
’19
−$11k
’20
$6k
’21
−$12k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$28k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Loren Traylor Gibson

Executive Director

Board chair

Raymond Harbert

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $3k.

From the IRS filings of Newcomen Society of 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

Newcomen Society of Alabama leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 Newcomen Society of Alabama's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’22
Alabama out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Newcomen Society of 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Newcomen Society of 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Newcomen Society of Alabama?
Newcomen Society of Alabama (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,775 to it, the largest being ALTECSTYSLINGER FOUNDATION ($5,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Newcomen Society of Alabama have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,775 in grants to Newcomen Society of Alabama, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Newcomen Society of Alabama?
ALTECSTYSLINGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Newcomen Society of 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.

Play a game about who funds Newcomen Society of Alabama →

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 3 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