Alabama · Nonprofit
SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA
SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $265k
What Skilled Trades of West Alabama does
Mission
The mission of Skilled Trades of West Alabama is to build a highly skilled, qualified, and prepared workforce for the construction industry in west alabama. Skilled Trades of West Alabama is changing lives. Through its mission, the organization offers opportunities for apprenticeships and training in the construction trades. With a high demand for and shortage of skilled, ready-to-work employees and tradesmen, opportunities exist now to build high-paying, successful careers. Skilled Trades of West Alabama is a registered apprenticeship program through the alabama office of apprenticeships and is a funding partner of the alabama construction crafts training board.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Workforce development is implemented through on-the-job training coupled with class and hands-on instruction aligned with industry standards.
$1,103,689 spentof which $1,500 as grants$269,193 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,103,689.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $402k to $467k (+16%).
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 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA
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
98% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Skilled Trade Placement Services · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA?
- SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA.
- Who is the largest funder of SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA?
- ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKILLED TRADES OF WEST ALABAMA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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