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SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC

SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,094,288 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($631,221). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$907k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$1.3M
16/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Special Olympics Alabama Inc does

Mission

Provide year-round sports training & athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide year-round sports training & athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.

    $593,673 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $593,673.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($954k) Expenses 100 ($963k) Net assets 100 ($685k)2020 Revenue 82 ($778k) Expenses 49 ($474k) Net assets 195 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 73 ($693k) Expenses 76 ($728k) Net assets 190 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 97 ($930k) Expenses 68 ($659k) Net assets 140 ($959k)2023 Revenue 112 ($1.1M) Expenses 82 ($790k) Net assets 181 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 95 ($907k) Expenses 86 ($824k) Net assets 193 ($1.3M)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (95)Expenses (86)Net assets (193)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $979k (−28%).

$698k
$1.4M
$1.4M
$979k
$1.3M
$1.4M
201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’18
$304k
’20
−$35k
’21
$271k
’22
$280k
’23
$83k
’24
19
months of
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

Robert Bushong

Executive director

Board chair

Don Bost

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201820202021202220232024
Listed16916161616
Joined··+15+0+0+1
No longer listed··8001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $178k → $210k.

3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA 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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC.

58%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 93% · 2019 54% · 2020 55% · 2021 89% · 2022 98% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

44% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 6 states in all.

IN
MO
NC
DC
AL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 21%Fundraising 7%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,094,288 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($631,221). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,094,288 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC?
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $631,221 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 21 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