Alabama · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,231 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $6
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $0
What Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council Region 9 Inc does
Mission
To develop strategic partnerships which attract, educate, and train students and workers to better meet employer needs and foster economic growth in a global marketplace. Sawdc's vision is to develop a comprehensive, integrated workforce development system which creates a skilled, diverse, motivated, adaptable workforce that better meets the needs of employers and leads to a better quality of life for local citizens. Note this is the final tax return as non profit has been dissolved.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sawdc's vision is to develop a comprehensive, integrated workforce development system which creates a skilled, diverse, motiveted, and adaptable workforce that better meets the needs of employers and leads to a better quality of life for local citizens. Sawdc has a mission to develop stratgic parnerships which attract, educate, and train students and workers to better meet employer needs and foster economic growth in a global marketplace. Sawdc works to ensure that all stakeholders have access to a system for workforce development that advocates for their needs and that there is a large qualified candidate pool. This is accomplished by engaging industry clusters, influencing the system of education and training, and inspiring the future supply of workers. Note this is the final tax return as non profit has been dissolved.
$151,408 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,408.
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.
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 $1.3M to $346k (−73%).
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: 2017 26% · 2018 23% · 2019 20% · 2020 16% · 2021 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 25% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 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
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
51% 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 SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC draws 51% 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. 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
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC?
- SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,231 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $98,231 in grants to SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 INC?
- NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 9 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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