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ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION

ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,449 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION ($243,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$219k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$418k
Net assets
$3.4M
5/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Rotary Club of Birmingham Foundation does

Mission

The foundation provides financial support for the club's current, ongoing, and future service projects as well as local, national, and international emergency relief

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The rcb foundation provides financial support for the club's current, ongoing, and future service projects as well as local, national, and international emergency relief. The work of the rcb foundation is made possible by the quarterly contributions, additional gifts, and legacy commitments of our club members.

    $237,640 spentof which $159,553 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $237,640.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 376 ($79k) Expenses 45 ($18k) Net assets 111 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 419 ($88k) Expenses 133 ($54k) Net assets 114 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 1818 ($381k) Expenses 181 ($73k) Net assets 133 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 2670 ($559k) Expenses 433 ($176k) Net assets 156 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 134 ($28k) Expenses 847 ($344k) Net assets 137 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 1950 ($408k) Expenses 608 ($247k) Net assets 146 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 5057 ($1.1M) Expenses 600 ($244k) Net assets 197 ($3.2M)2025 Revenue 1046 ($219k) Expenses 585 ($238k) Net assets 212 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (1046)Expenses (585)Net assets (212)Peer revenue range

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 $2.5M to $3.3M (+30%).

$2.2M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$3.3M
$3.6M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
$61k
’18
$34k
’19
$307k
’20
$383k
’21
−$316k
’22
$161k
’23
$815k
’24
−$19k
’25
37
months of
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.

Board chair

Lee Weathers

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121015161616171817
Joined·+4+10+4+6+4+5+6+6
No longer listed·65364457
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $53k → $32k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $428k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham). These are real filings, and they are not money ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION’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

ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

58%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 55% · 2022 78% · 2023 84% — 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 ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 3 states in all.

NV
DE
AL

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

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’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve37.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION

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.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rotary Club of Birmingham · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION?
ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,449 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION ($243,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $418,449 in grants to ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION?
CAMPBELL ESTELLE S CHAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $243,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION 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 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing