Alabama · Nonprofit
SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER
SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,805 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center does
Mission
The Center shall house and support programs that facilitate freedom, community-centered development, and cooperative education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Cooperative Development. The purpose of the cooperative development program is to grow the SMCEC and accomplish the mission of the organization by growing cooperative education and community-centered development through worker-owned businesses. Program accomplishments include founding and securing long-term funding for the Alabama Center for Employee Ownership, another 501c3 nonprofit, which serves as a central resource hub for employee ownership in Alabama. SMCECs cooperative development team built a national network to support successful employee ownership transitions in Alabama, which includes support from experts and funders. The cooperative development team also performed outreach and education on the social and economic benefits of employee ownership to over 150 people and served 3 Alabama businesses in exploring employee ownership options. In order to accomplish this work, the board contracted a returning Lamplight staff member who now resides in Alabama for the purposes of accomplishing this program.
$26,400 spent40% of program spendingLamplight Summer Camp Session Two. This session was the standard three week session of Lamplight which SMCEC has run since 2019 in Guntersville, AL. This session was in July and was open to returning campers and new campers. The session served 15 campers. Many youth in our service areas lack structured activities in the summer and school year due to institutional deficits, economic limitations, transportation issues, or parental commitments. Lamplight addresses these needs by offering enriching summer experiences that foster civic engagement, leadership skills, and a sense of community, while also covering basic needs such as childcare, food, and transportation free of charge.
$22,744 spent34% of program spendingLamplight Summer Camp Session One. This session marked Lamplights first expansion and was the beginning of youth programming in Birmingham. Lamplight Summer Camp is a free, immersive summer program designed to cultivate leadership among teenagers through self-governance and community service projects. The program served 10 new campers in the Birmingham area over a three week period, with camp running Monday through Friday from 9am-7pm and 9am-9pm on Fridays. On top of providing community-centered cooperative education to campers, Lamplight provided lunch and dinner to all campers and transportation for 7 out of the 10 campers.
$17,168 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,312.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $40k to $28k (−31%).
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.
100% of SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Daniel Waid Marshall
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER’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
SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER.
“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
60% of SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER
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.
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER?
- SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,805 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,805 in grants to SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER 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 2024–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing