Alabama · Nonprofit
VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION
VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,492,136 to it, the largest being BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION ($5,835,183). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Vulcan Park Foundation does
Mission
To preserve and promote vulcan as the symbol for the birmingham region, to advance knowledge and understanding of birmingham's diverse history and culture, and to encourage exploration of the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vulcan Park Foundation operates the city-owned vulcan park and museum as a historically significant site with a wealth of educational exhibits and programs for both visitors and area residents. Vulcan has embodied the story of the region and its citizens since his creation in 1904, and brings this story to life through grade-specific field trips, outreach programs and adult "edu-tainment" programs. A landmark tourist attraction since the 1930s, and home of the convention and visitors bureau's visitor information center, visitors learn of the region's diverse history and culture, and are encouraged to explore the area's many other cultural and natural assets. Organizer of key community events such as the state's largest july 4th fireworks celebration, vulcan serves as the community's enduring and unifying symbol.
$1,895,577 spent$654,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,895,577.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $2.5M (−11%).
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 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 23% · 2020 29% · 2021 23% · 2022 24% · 2023 32% · 2024 41% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
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
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.
Chief executive
Cardona Cynthia
Executive director
Board chair
Raber Martha
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $20k → $252k.
4 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 52% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 34% · 2022 97% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
100% of VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like VULCAN PARK 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 VULCAN PARK 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION?
- VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,492,136 to it, the largest being BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION ($5,835,183). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $7,492,136 in grants to VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION?
- BIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,835,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VULCAN PARK 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.
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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 40 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