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UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,453,595 to it, the largest being NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ($1,500,001). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$138M
11/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What University of Alabama Huntsville Foundation does

Mission

Provide support to the university of alabama in huntsville through contributions to school programs and student scholarships

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide support to the university of alabama in huntsville

    $2,983,732 spentof which $2,983,732 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,983,732.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($61M)2018 Revenue 51 ($4.8M) Expenses 97 ($3.3M) Net assets 104 ($63M)2019 Revenue 45 ($4.3M) Expenses 94 ($3.2M) Net assets 103 ($63M)2020 Revenue 94 ($8.9M) Expenses 76 ($2.6M) Net assets 114 ($69M)2021 Revenue 103 ($9.9M) Expenses 120 ($4.1M) Net assets 145 ($88M)2022 Revenue 212 ($20M) Expenses 117 ($4.0M) Net assets 154 ($94M)2023 Revenue 371 ($35M) Expenses 726 ($25M) Net assets 177 ($108M)2024 Revenue 156 ($15M) Expenses 200 ($6.9M) Net assets 200 ($121M)2025 Revenue 208 ($20M) Expenses 158 ($5.5M) Net assets 227 ($138M)
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Revenue (208)Expenses (158)Net assets (227)

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 $94M to $121M (+28%).

$61M
$64M
$63M
$69M
$88M
$94M
$121M
$132M
$144M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.1M
’17
$1.5M
’18
$1.0M
’19
$6.3M
’20
$5.7M
’21
$16M
’22
$10M
’23
$7.9M
’24
$14M
’25
8.2
months of
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.

Board chair

S Dagnal Rowe Esq

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed404138424040354136
Joined·+5+4+7+1+1+3+10+1
No longer listed·47331846
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $160k → $475k.

6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $1.1M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE 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

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION.

61%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 73% · 2021 67% · 2022 36% · 2023 77% — 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

40% of UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 12 states in all.

MN
NY
MA
IA
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $538k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION

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

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

34
board members
85%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

37%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Chamber's Bottling Company LLC · partnership
  • Lowe Jones Blue LLC · partnership
  • Big Springs Inc · corp_trust
  • Westlake Development LLC · corp_trust
  • Madison Memphis LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION?
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,453,595 to it, the largest being NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ($1,500,001). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,453,595 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION?
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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