Alabama · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,527,146 to it, the largest being LUCILLE S BEESON CHAR TR BOND MGMT ($1,190,451). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The Community Foundation of Greater does
Mission
Betterment of the community
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
All programs through The Community Foundation of Greater decatur are expressly for the betterment of the greater decatur, alabama community.
$726,753 spent$64,300 earned by the program100% of program spendingTo support charitable organizations and specific projects that help to improve the quality of life for the residents of the decatur, alabama area
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $726,753.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $3.0M (+32%).
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 1% · 2019 43% · 2020 48% · 2021 52% · 2022 48% · 2023 66% · 2024 29%. 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 8 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 broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $102k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 45% · 2023 37% — 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
20% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER's funders are still giving 3 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
98% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER: 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,527,146 to it, the largest being LUCILLE S BEESON CHAR TR BOND MGMT ($1,190,451). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,527,146 in grants to THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER?
- LUCILLE S BEESON CHAR TR BOND MGMT is the largest funder on record, with $1,190,451 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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