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Alabama Network of Children's

Montgomery, AL · EIN 63-1048697. Reported 177 grants totalling $14.5M to 36 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

36organizations funded
$61,364median reported grant
$14.5Mgranted, 2020-2024
100%of grantees funded again the next year
4%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Alabama Network of Children's, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I72Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 4% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $61,364. Half of what it reported fell between $49,729 and $82,363; the smallest was $9,600 and the largest $213,630. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
48 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
83 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
36 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Tri County Childrens Advocacy CenterDadeville, AL$534,788552024
Shelby County Childrens Advocacy Center IncColumbiana, AL$475,520552024
Care House IncSummerdale, AL$474,521552024
Cramer Childerns Center IncFlorence, AL$474,521552024
National Childrens Advocacy Center IncHuntsville, AL$464,521552024
Butterfly Bridge Childrens Advocacy Center IncClanton, AL$460,409552024
Morgan County Child Advocacy Center IncDecatur, AL$452,083552024
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman IncCullman, AL$445,256552024
Russell County Child Advocacy Center IncPhenix City, AL$440,644552024
Child Protect IncMontgomery, AL$430,522552024
The Child Advocacy Center IncMobile, AL$430,521552024
Prescott HouseBirmingham, AL$430,520552024
Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy CenterDothan, AL$430,520552024
Tuscaloosa Childrens Center IncTuscaloosa, AL$430,520552024
Twin Cedars CacOpelika, AL$430,520552024
West Alabama Childrens Advocacy Center IncFayette, AL$423,453552024
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy CenterSelma, AL$422,275552024
Regional Child Advocacy Center IncGrove Hill, AL$420,990552024
Calhoun Cleburne Childrens Center IncAnniston, AL$418,461552024
Pike Regional Child Advocacy CenterTroy, AL$417,308552024
St Clair Childrens Advocacy Center IncPell City, AL$416,817552024
Child Advocacy Center of Marshall County Alabama IncGuntersville, AL$415,241552024
James M Barrie Center for ChildrenGadsden, AL$413,206552024
Dekalb County Children Advocacy Center IncFort Payne, AL$409,176552024
Talladega County Child Advocacy Center IncTalladega, AL$409,071552024
Escambia Regional CacBrewton, AL$407,130552024
Walker County Childrens Advocacy CenterJasper, AL$406,959552024
Blount County CacOneonta, AL$406,237552024
Butler County Childrens Advocacy Center IncGreenville, AL$402,961552024
Covington County Child Advocacy Center IncAndalusia, AL$402,026552024
The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cherokee County IncCentre, AL$399,238552024
Athens Limestone Childrens Advocacy Center IncAthens, AL$381,543552024
Jackson County Childrens Advocacy Center IncScottsboro, AL$195,397552024
Addies Place Child Advocacy Center of Winston CountyDouble Spgs, AL$190,615332024
The Bessemer Cut Off Advocacy Center IncBessemer, AL$178,911442023
Blackbelt Regional Child Advocacy CenterDemopolis, AL$165,349552024

36 of 36 (100%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 26 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Crime & Legal
12 orgs
Human Services
9 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Civil Rights
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202035$1,687,703$49,729
202135$1,700,822$49,068
202236$2,140,250$61,364
202336$6,224,975$176,114
202435$2,754,000$80,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Dadeville, AL
$535K
Columbiana, AL
$476K
Summerdale, AL
$475K
Florence, AL
$475K
Huntsville, AL
$465K
Clanton, AL
$460K
Decatur, AL
$452K
Cullman, AL
$445K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

National Children's Alliance Inc11 shared recipientsAlabama Power Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsThe Daniel Foundation of Alabama7 shared recipientsNetwork for Good4 shared recipientsUnited Way of Central Alabama Inc3 shared recipientsAlfa Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $61,364 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alabama.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Alabama Network of Children's's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 241922, Montgomery, AL, 36124.

EIN 63-1048697 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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