Alabama · Nonprofit
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL (Alabama) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,200 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION ($85,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $773k
What Public Affairs Research Council of Al does
Mission
Parca's mission is to help alabama's governments, schools, and communities function well and make sound decisions that improve the lives of all people. It pursues this mission through trusted, honest, objective, and independent research- informing leaders and citizens rather than advocating for any position or interest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy and data:parca conducts independent, nonpartisan, non-ideological research and transforms complex public data into accessible, usable information for state and local leaders, school systems, the business community, and the public. This work includes long-form comparative policy research, data journalism, and interactive data tools and dashboards. A central focus is public education, for which parca produces high-level analyses of statewide school performance data and detailed analyses of individual local school systems. Other work during the year included analysis of alabama taxes and public finances, as well as research on the state constitution. Parca's public-finance research supports informed budgeting and fiscal stability at the state and local levels, and its independent fiscal analysis is relied upon to provide policymakers across the political spectrum with a shared, factual baseline.
$468,183 spent$239,489 earned by the program40% of program spendingProgram evaluation:parca conducts research and program evaluation for governments, agencies, and nonprofits, providing end-to-end support from research design and instrument development through data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and reporting. During the year, this work included evaluation of alabama's 2019 literacy act, evaluation of student support services provided by the a+ education partnership, and evaluation of intensive tutoring programs in birmingham city schools provided by the united way of central alabama.
$526,706 spent$359,232 earned by the program45% of program spendingTechnical assistance:parca provides hands-on technical assistance that helps governments and nonprofits make and carry out decisions, including custom dashboards and data tools, database design, survey design and administration, program design, and staff training in research and evaluation methods.
$175,569 spent$598,722 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,170,458.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $532k to $784k (+47%).
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 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Ryan Hankins
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $23k → $66k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $593k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham). These are real filings, and they are not money PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL raised.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL’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
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 65% · 2021 36% · 2022 40% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
71% of PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL
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
72% 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 PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL: 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 PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL?
- PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL (Alabama) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,200 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION ($85,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $386,200 in grants to PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL?
- CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF AL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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