Alabama · Nonprofit
RENEW BIRMINGHAM
RENEW BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,520,686 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($650,686). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $345k
What Renew Birmingham does
Mission
At Renew Birmingham, we are focused on community cohesion by empowering residents in five key areas of need (housing, adult education and workforce development, job opportunities and transportation, youth education services, and community health and wellness). We develop relationships with other non-profits who provide services to align with these needs. Working together, we are determined to make meaningful change for the residents of birmingham's most challenged neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ensley renaissance festival: held on saturday, august 9, 2025 as a neighborhood gathering and for an introduction of Renew Birmingham to the community. Musicians and other artists performed for those in attendance. Antique cars were also on display. Over 300 ensley area residents attended, got to know each other and talked about how to change the culture in the ensley neighborhoods.
$34,532 spent4% of program spendingPutting the neighbor back in the neighborhood: ensley residents were recruited to host 21 yard parties and 186 other community events. Neighbors were invited and heard about the purpose of Renew Birmingham. Over 1,000 residents attended the various yard events and discussed how to change the culture in the ensley neighborhoods. Renew Birmingham gathered demographic information to use in its charity tracker software.
$299,383 spent35% of program spendingAssisting the ensley area residents with obtaining affordable and safe housing is one of Renew Birmingham's main focus areas. In 2025, over 180 ensley residents receieved financial assisstance totaling $291,629 with past due or delinquent rents, utility payments, and other critical repairs to their homes in the service area. Canterbury united methodist foundation and navigate affordable housing provided financial grants totaling $100,000 to assist in the area of need.
$291,629 spentof which $90,487 as grants$9,015 earned by the program34% of program spendingHousing: assisting members of the community with housing needs, adult ed/ workforce development: giving unemployed and underemployed individuals the skills and assistance they need to have a second chance at succeeding in the workforce. Job oportunities & transportation: assistance in finding jobs and addressing transportation needs that are often a barrier for many individuals to obtain and retain meaningful, rewarding employment.
$241,072 spentof which $59,990 as grants28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $866,616.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $543k to $428k (−21%).
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.
98% of RENEW BIRMINGHAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Fernanda Gerrel Jones
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $342k → $519k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 RENEW BIRMINGHAM’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
RENEW BIRMINGHAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 RENEW BIRMINGHAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 41% · 2023 55% — 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
52% of RENEW BIRMINGHAM'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 $729k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $792k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RENEW BIRMINGHAM is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RENEW BIRMINGHAM
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RENEW BIRMINGHAM: 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 RENEW BIRMINGHAM?
- RENEW BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,520,686 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($650,686). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RENEW BIRMINGHAM have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,520,686 in grants to RENEW BIRMINGHAM, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RENEW BIRMINGHAM?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $650,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RENEW BIRMINGHAM 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 2022–2025), 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