ALABAMA FAMILIES FOR GREAT SCHOOLS

2025 · Form 990 · revenue $500K · expenses $420K · assets $119K

EIN

46-5646549

Address

4215 GLENWOOD AVE, BIRMINGHAM, AL 35222-4301

Website

WWW.ALFAMILIESFORGREATSCHOOLS.COM

NTEE code

B01

Exempt type

501(c)(4): social welfare (corporation)

Ruling date

December 2014 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

No

Principal officer

J Michael Carpenter (its 2021 Form 990-N)

Form 990-N e-postcards

1 filed, 2021 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗

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Mission

CONNECTING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FAMILIES TO ALABAMA POLICYMAKERS.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

1 person paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

6 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Federal lobbying

Lobbying Disclosure Act reports naming a client or registrant with this organization's name and state. Spent: what lobbying for it cost (firm income plus its own reported expenses). Earned: income it reported as a lobbying firm.

Issues: Education

Firms hired: BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS LLP

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• ALABAMA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION Birmingham, AL · 2 people in common (Jerry Tate, Martin Nalls)

Funders of this organization

2 grantors reported grants to this organization, $200,000 in all, tax years 2023 to 2025. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.