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The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation

The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation (Alabama) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,536,535 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($854,166). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$1.1M
10/33 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation does

Mission

To partner with institutions to promote love, the establishment of justice, build the Beloved Community, transform and heal the root causes of physical, psychological, and environmental, economic, and racial violence at the personal, family, community, and systemic levels.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided training in community outreach and other activities

    $187,400 spent$40,000 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  2. Provide Violence Intervention/Interrruption services within the historically underserved community of Selma, AL

    $505,396 spent$252,591 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  3. Partnership for equitable and resilient communities

    $250,000 spent$854,166 earned by the program
    27% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $942,796.

02The organization over time

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.

Board chair

Dr Bernard Lafayette

Board Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $11k → $654k.

9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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

76% 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 Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation.

34%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 38% · 2021 88% · 2022 40% · 2023 51% — 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

18% of The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 11 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation

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

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 16%Fundraising 4%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation: 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 Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation?
The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation (Alabama) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,536,535 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($854,166). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,536,535 in grants to The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation?
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $854,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Selma Center for Nonviolence Truth and Reconciliation 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 33 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