Alabama · Nonprofit
Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama
Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,078 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $545k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $603k
- Net assets
- $642k
What Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama does
Mission
We are connecting communities to resources for energy efficiency, sustainability, and affordable homes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We fiscally sponsored People's Budget Birmingham and Birmingham Earth Coalition.
$421,971 spentof which $64,291 as grants89% of program spendingWe conducted a 20-week Home Energy Retrofit Street Team and hired six residents from local communities experiencing high energy burden and taught them how to retrofit homes. In addition to retrofitting homes, the Street Team was active in conducting regular community mutual aid events and resource fairs as a tool for building relationships in the community and conducting surveys through door-to-door canvassing and phone banks. Thoughout the Summer and Fall we facilitated eight HER Clinics, which included hands on training while retrofitting a resident's home. All eight clinics were conducted in communities with high energy burden. In the late Fall we hired our first ever Energy Equity Organizer to manage and expand our HER programming in 2026. Throughout the Fall we partnered with a community cultural center to host a resource event, where we distributed over 50 Home Energy Retrofit DIY kits to residents.
$51,751 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $473,722.
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 2022 to 2023, from $94k to $631k (+570%).
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 Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $87 → $430k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 27% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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
Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.
Against its field
Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama: 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 Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama?
- Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $603,078 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $603,078 in grants to Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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