Alabama · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL
NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,970,182 to it, the largest being ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS ($5,970,182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $297k
What Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council does
Mission
To provide local leadership required for developing and carrying out a plan for orderly conservation, improvement, and development, for implementing community based projects, and for the wise use of natural resources thereby improving economic opportunities for people within northwest alabama.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Multi-county project support - over 50 projects completed or in process in our five county area promoting education, environmental conservation, community development, local food production and sustainable agriculture, and basic needs and safety.
$955,386 spentof which $833,045 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $955,386.
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 $123k to $240k (+95%).
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 93% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 88% · 2021 83% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% · 2024 97% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lauranne James
Executive director
Board chair
Roger Hayes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $317k → $961k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $60k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation & Developement Council). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL’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.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$185k
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 NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL
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
79% 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 NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL: 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 NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL?
- NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,970,182 to it, the largest being ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS ($5,970,182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,970,182 in grants to NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL?
- ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $5,970,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST ALABAMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPEMENT COUNCIL 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 1 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