Alabama · Nonprofit
The Arc of Shelby County Inc
The Arc of Shelby County Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,379 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($1,084,223). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $904k
What The Arc of Shelby County Inc does
Mission
Providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities through children services, employment services, family resource guidance and personal care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New Visions served approximately 27 individuals in day services, receiving opportunities for ongoing skills training and opportunities for community inclusion based on their individual desire and goals. This program is funded through Medicaid Waiver Services, Department of Mental Health, United Way, grants, and community support.
$517,561 spent$382,962 earned by the program23% of program spendingChildrens Services served approximately 877 children and families through early intervention evaluations, home visits, parent and caregiver training and Tales for Tots. Services included physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, special instruction, service coordination, and Spanish language interpretation. Nutrition services were also provided through grants. This program is funded through Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Department of Mental Health (October 2024-February 2025), Medicaid, United Way, grants, and community support.
$1,139,086 spent$875,828 earned by the program50% of program spendingEmployment Services served approximately 530 individuals with intellectual and developmental delays through assessments, job coaching, long term support services, Project Search, and Pre-Educational Transitional Services; for job readiness, job placement, job supports, and college readiness training. This program is funded through Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services / Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Project Search, United Way, grants and community supports.
$524,341 spent$507,321 earned by the program23% of program spendingCommunity Services- Community Support Services provides a variety of support to individuals and their families, including information and referral, resource information, community workshops, advocacy services and advocacy training for individuals with developmental disabilities. During the year ended September 30. 2025, approximately 687 individuals received services in this program. This program is fully funded through United Way, grants and community support.
$79,104 spent$34,709 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,260,092.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $878k to $1.8M (+103%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 10% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jeannine Lyons
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $142k → $144k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The Arc of Shelby County 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
The Arc of Shelby County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 The Arc of Shelby County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of The Arc of Shelby County Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of The Arc of Shelby County Inc's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like The Arc of Shelby County 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Arc of Shelby County Inc: 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 The Arc of Shelby County Inc?
- The Arc of Shelby County Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,271,379 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($1,084,223). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Arc of Shelby County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,271,379 in grants to The Arc of Shelby County Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Arc of Shelby County Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,084,223 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Arc of Shelby County 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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