Alabama · Nonprofit
SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL
SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,600 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $541k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Southbound Food Festival does
Mission
The mission of southbound food fest is to educate local and non-local attendees about birmingham's and alabama's dynamic culinary culture and traditions. This festival will promote education about the interconnectedness of alabama's food and culture, as well as issues of deeper cultural significance, for example, how food is woven into every aspect of daily life, and how food played a critical role in the civil rights movement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
One of southbound's key purposes is to support the annual birmingham festival. The mission is to celebrate birmingham's dynamic culinary industry with events, presentations, panel discussions, music, poetry and other community gatherings. Through this annual food event, southbound provides a platform where people can come together to learn about the region's rich culture, experience all birmingham has to offer, and discuss issues of deeper cultural significance.the Southbound Food Festival is dedicated to equity, the arts, sustainability, and community growth. Southbound is committed to all forms of the culinary arts, with passion, reverence for tradition and excitement for innovation.the Southbound Food Festival has now grown from the inaugural four-day festival to a 10-day event hosting chefs, mixologists, brewers, artists, artisans and food ambassadors from across the us to collaborate with the acclaimed food community in alabama. The festival highlights the diverse flavors, history and culture of alabama, features chefs and beverage professionals, and entertained guests from across several states and canada. Additionally, Southbound Food Festival highlighted non-profit…
$579,729 spent$99,571 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $579,729.
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 2024 to 2025, from $99k to $44k (−55%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 51% · 2024 47% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
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) — 31% 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 SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL’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
SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL.
“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
100% of SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL: 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 SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL?
- SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,600 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,600 in grants to SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC 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 SOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL 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 2022–2025), 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