Alabama · Nonprofit
SABRE FINANCE INC
SABRE FINANCE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $894,000 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK ($450,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $894k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Sabre Finance Inc does
Mission
To stimulate economic development through the provision of financial and technical assistance to small and medium-sized businesses, particularly those locating or wishing to locate in distressed areas of alabama in general and the birmingham region specifically.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To stimulate economic development through the provision of financial and technical assistance to small and medium-sized businesses, particularly those locating or wishing to locate in distressed areas of alabama in general and the birmingham region specifically.
$1,538,409 spent$1,212,234 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,538,409.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $6.9M to $9.3M (+34%).
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: 2018 30% · 2019 52% · 2020 19% · 2021 66% · 2022 63% · 2023 61% · 2024 51% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of SABRE FINANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Ray Morris Phd
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jim Byram
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $134k → $300k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SABRE FINANCE INC’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
SABRE FINANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SABRE FINANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SABRE FINANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SABRE FINANCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SABRE FINANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Small Business Administration$3.1M
- Department of the Treasury$1.5M
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 SABRE FINANCE INC
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
96%
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 SABRE FINANCE INC: 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 SABRE FINANCE INC?
- SABRE FINANCE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $894,000 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK ($450,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SABRE FINANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $894,000 in grants to SABRE FINANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SABRE FINANCE INC?
- OPPORTUNITY FINANCE NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SABRE FINANCE INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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