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WOODLAWN UNITED INC

WOODLAWN UNITED INC (Alabama) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,080,071 to it, the largest being REGIONS FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.5M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
$9.1M
Net assets
$14M
38/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Woodlawn United Inc does

Mission

The foundation will serve as a catalyst and facilitator for the transformation and revitalization of the woodlawn community in birmingham, alabama into a vibrant and sustainable community in which its residents have an opportunity to thrive.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education pipeline: to provide high-quality, neighborhood-serving continuum for student growth, learning, and achievement at every level starting at birth and through college and beyond.

    $2,206,368 spentof which $79,600 as grants
    71% of program spending

  2. Real estate revitalization: to provide safe, high-quality housing serving residents at all income levels with a high percentage designated to preserve long-term, permanent affordability in the neighborhood.

    $568,522 spentof which $3,000 as grants$179,550 earned by the program
    18% of program spending

  3. Community wellness: to provide community-specific mix of facilities, programs, and services that honor local history, reflect the priorities of residents, promote healthy lifestyles, create jobs, and reduce crime.

    $313,898 spentof which $12,700 as grants
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,088,788.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($7.1M)2018 Revenue 74 ($2.0M) Expenses 73 ($2.5M) Net assets 93 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 53 ($1.5M) Expenses 70 ($2.4M) Net assets 80 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 370 ($10M) Expenses 83 ($2.9M) Net assets 184 ($13M)2021 Revenue 254 ($7.0M) Expenses 113 ($3.9M) Net assets 229 ($16M)2022 Revenue 92 ($2.5M) Expenses 94 ($3.2M) Net assets 219 ($16M)2023 Revenue 92 ($2.5M) Expenses 59 ($2.0M) Net assets 226 ($16M)2024 Revenue 91 ($2.5M) Expenses 117 ($4.0M) Net assets 205 ($14M)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (117)Net assets (205)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $23M (+72%).

$10M
$9.4M
$13M
$23M
$23M
$20M
$20M
$17M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of WOODLAWN UNITED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$671k
’17
−$483k
’18
−$942k
’19
$7.4M
’20
$3.1M
’21
−$671k
’22
$516k
’23
−$1.5M
’24
8.5
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.

Chief executive

Mashonda Taylor

Chief executive officer

Board chair

T Michael Goodrich Ii

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1616161717161717
Joined·+0+0+2+4+1+1+0
No longer listed·0014200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $240k → $1.1M.

Funder
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total
funders
12
13
16
26
31
27
24
23
10

9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $2.0M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham). These are real filings, and they are not money WOODLAWN UNITED INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WOODLAWN UNITED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

WOODLAWN UNITED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

13%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 61% · 2019 31% · 2020 43% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 27% — 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

61% of WOODLAWN UNITED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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

70% of WOODLAWN UNITED INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

MN
PA
MO
DE
TN
AL
GA
FL

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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Against its field

WOODLAWN UNITED INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−61% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like WOODLAWN UNITED INC

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

Uab Athletics Foundation79%St Mary's Foundation73%Urban Purpose Inc73%Hands on Birmingham Inc72%Charitable Gift Foundation72%Talladega First Inc72%Refuge 1212 Inc71%Teal Wings of Hope Inc71%

Nationally

Uab Athletics Foundation79%Woodlawn Cemetery75%Woodnext Philanthropies75%Woodlake Union High School District Foundation75%Woodlawn Cemetery Association75%Woodway Supporting Foundation 875%Woodlawn Foundation75%Woodlawn Apartments Inc75%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Wf Real Property Resources LLC · disregarded
  • Cottages at Wood Station · disregarded
  • Woodlawn Rushton Elc Landlord LLC · partnership
  • Woodlawn Pcs Landlord LLC · partnership
  • Wf Projects Manager Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOODLAWN UNITED INC: 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 WOODLAWN UNITED INC?
WOODLAWN UNITED INC (Alabama) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,080,071 to it, the largest being REGIONS FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOODLAWN UNITED INC have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,080,071 in grants to WOODLAWN UNITED INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOODLAWN UNITED INC?
REGIONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOODLAWN UNITED INC 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 48 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