Alabama · Nonprofit
THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES
THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,625 to it, the largest being THOMAS H LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($145,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES's revenue fell 30% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocal
- Guido and Ruth Shumake Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Wrobel Family Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 69% · 2018 81% · 2019 88% · 2020 2% · 2021 42% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $30k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES’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 TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 83% · 2018 83% · 2019 83% · 2020 82% · 2021 82% · 2022 52% · 2023 89% — 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
20% of THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES'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
THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R Meyer Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you
- Guido and Ruth Shumake Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wrobel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enrichment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Backcountry Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gregory and Erica Lewis Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Integra Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Melvin R & Ada C Greiser Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Terwilliger Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas & Maureen Oconnor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oberheide Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES?
- THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,625 to it, the largest being THOMAS H LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($145,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $186,625 in grants to THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES?
- THOMAS H LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing