COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST ALABAMA DAF sponsor

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2025 · Form 990 · revenue $13.9M · expenses $1.5M · assets $33.5M

EIN

63-1225003

Address

PO BOX 3033, TUSCALOOSA, AL 35403-3033

Website

WWW.THECFWA.ORG

NTEE code

T31 Community Foundations (Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations) published (IRS Business Master File)

FURP topic

science: research education (from its 990 text; the topic index)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (trust)

Ruling date

July 1999 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

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

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

Donor-advised funds

Sponsor: its returns say it maintains donor-advised funds (latest tax year 2025). Figures by year

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Mission

TO FURTHER CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY, RELIGIOUS, SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER ENDEAVORS WITHIN THE WEST ALABAMA AREA AND TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY RESIDE.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).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

30 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.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

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.

• THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF WEST ALABAMA INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 3 people in common (Heyward Gould, Lin Moore, Michele Coley)
• UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 2 people in common (Lin Moore, Susan Cork)
• THE DCH FOUNDATION INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 2 people in common (Heyward Gould, Lin Moore)
• BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Tuscaloosa, AL · 2 people in common (Bobby Ingram, Judge Wade Drinkard)
• WEST ALABAMA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 2 people in common (Lin Moore, Michele Coley)
• HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 1 person in common (Brad Crow)
• INDIAN HILLS COUNTRY CLUB INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 1 person in common (Heyward Gould)
• HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 1 person in common (Michele Coley)
• ALABAMA BANKERS ASSOCIATION INC Montgomery, AL · 1 person in common (Heyward Gould)
• FREEDOM FARM INC Coker, AL · 1 person in common (Susan Cork)
• CARING CONGREGATIONS Tuscaloosa, AL · 1 person in common (Libby Shaw)
• TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC Tuscaloosa, AL · 1 person in common (Bobby Ingram)

Funders of this organization

19 grantors reported grants to this organization, $864,408 in all, tax years 2011 to 2024. 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.

Donor-advised funds

Donors to individual donor-advised funds are not public. These filings show what the sponsor reports, not who gave.

As reported on Schedule D Part I (and the Form 990 Part IV question “did the organization maintain donor advised funds”). Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Federal grants and contracts

Awards from USAspending.gov to a recipient with this organization's name and zip code. Obligations by federal fiscal year (October to September); each award links to its page on usaspending.gov.