Alabama · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,609,090 to it, the largest being ADITI FOUNDATION ($1,590,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Women's Foundation of Alabama does
Mission
Women's Foundation of Alabama is a community-driven foundation impacting the world around us by accelerating economic opportunity for women. We envision a society where power and possibility are not limited by gender, race, or place. Founded as a regional women's fund in 1996, the Women's Foundation of Alabama is the state's only public women's foundation applying gender lens to grantmaking, research, and advancing alabama child care accelerator.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grantmakingin 2024, the Women's Foundation of Alabama strengthened its position as the state's leading philanthropic organization advancing women's economic opportunity. Through its competitive statewide grantmaking cycle, the foundation supported programs that remove barriers to employment and increase access to education and workforce pathways.
$1,908,209 spentof which $1,800,598 as grants$47,897 earned by the program64% of program spendingAdvancing alabama child care accelerator in addition to competitive grantmaking, the foundation invests in strategic initiatives to elevate women and families on the path to economic mobility. The student parent success model, now implemented in eleven community colleges, provides career-specific training combined with child care, transportation, and individualized coaching to help student parents complete programs leading to stable employment. Also, Women's Foundation of Alabama launched the advancing alabama child care accelerator in spring 2024 aiming to support center-based and home-based child care providers in starting or expanding high-quality, thriving child care businesses that meet the needs of working families in alabama. Together, these initiatives served more than 8,000 women and girls statewide, contributing to measurable gains in education, employment, and economic mobility.
$294,856 spentof which $206,400 as grants$168,725 earned by the program10% of program spendingAdvocacyto address gender inequities, wfa leverages public policy advocacy as a strategic tool for change because we know that philanthropy alone is not enough. To shift the paradigm from charity to justice, wfa championed nonpartisan common sense policy solutions supporting women's economic opportunity. Our 2024 agenda for women urged alabama lawmakers to advance equity through workplace supports and maternal health. Informed by our research, our agenda focused on what women need to enter and remain in the workforce: childcare, maternal health, and workforce opportunities. We were successful in increasing state investments to scale proven workforce development models, expand funding for childcare, safe-guarding the investment to the maternal mortality review and continued funding for the postpartum medicaid coverage.
$211,995 spentof which $787 as grants$460,000 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$585,699 spentof which $50,000 as grants20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,000,759.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.8M to $11M (+84%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 30% · 2023 19% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Melanie Bridgeforth
President/ CEO
Board chair
Lajuana Tucker Bradford
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.1M.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $3.0M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham); $8k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Women's Foundation of Alabama). These are real filings, and they are not money WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA raised.
From the IRS filings of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 49% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA?
- WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,609,090 to it, the largest being ADITI FOUNDATION ($1,590,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $6,609,090 in grants to WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA?
- ADITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA 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 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing