Alabama · Nonprofit
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,580 to it, the largest being WEST ALABAMA REGIONAL COMMISSION ($164,365). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- Tennessee Disability Coalitionportfolio match
- Jacob C Koch Charitable Trustportfolio 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.
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 88% · 2018 88% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% · 2024 92% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $34k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY’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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
83% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Tennessee Disability Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacob C Koch Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akima Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Variety of Eastern Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kovar Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Williamson Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabling Barriersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Blount Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY: 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY?
- UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,580 to it, the largest being WEST ALABAMA REGIONAL COMMISSION ($164,365). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $274,580 in grants to UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY?
- WEST ALABAMA REGIONAL COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $164,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF HUNTSVILLE AND TENNESSEE VALLEY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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