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UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION

UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,721 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($578,450). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.5M
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2019 Revenue 65 ($2.7M) Expenses 148 ($4.3M) Net assets 88 ($11M)2020 Revenue 74 ($3.1M) Expenses 94 ($2.7M) Net assets 90 ($11M)2021 Revenue 96 ($4.0M) Expenses 137 ($4.0M) Net assets 90 ($11M)2022 Revenue 141 ($5.9M) Expenses 202 ($5.9M) Net assets 90 ($11M)2023 Revenue 89 ($3.7M) Expenses 214 ($6.3M) Net assets 70 ($8.8M)2024 Revenue 139 ($5.8M) Expenses 174 ($5.1M) Net assets 76 ($9.6M)2025 Revenue 131 ($5.5M) Expenses 145 ($4.2M) Net assets 86 ($11M)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (145)Net assets (86)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
18
$1.6M
19
$341k
20
$7k
21
$24k
22
$2.5M
23
$721k
24
$1.3M
25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $175k → $80k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $550k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Power Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION’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

UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION.

37%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 59% · 2019 45% · 2020 47% · 2021 59% · 2022 62% · 2023 59%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

56% of UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

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

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $764k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

94
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • See Part VII · exempt
  • See Part VII · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: 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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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 UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION?
UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,721 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($578,450). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,570,721 in grants to UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $578,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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