United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc
Mobile, AL · EIN 63-0351568. Reported 138 grants totalling $4,957,434 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T700).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
- How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $28,913. Half of what it reported fell between $13,617 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $136,049. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc | Mobile, AL | $363,538 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Victory Health Partners Inc | Mobile, AL | $336,713 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dumas Wesley Community Center | Mobile, AL | $311,318 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Boys and Girls Clubs of South Alabama Inc | Mobile, AL | $268,674 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Penelope House Inc | Mobile, AL | $256,593 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Goodwill Gulf Coast | Mobile, AL | $235,591 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Feeding the Gulf Coast | Theodore, AL | $198,402 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| United Cerebral Palsy | Mobile, AL | $193,344 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Home of Grace for Women Inc | Eight Mile, AL | $189,110 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $179,032 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gulf Regional Early Childhood Services Inc | Mobile, AL | $171,169 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Child Advocacy Center Inc | Mobile, AL | $161,180 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Senior Citizens Services Inc | Mobile, AL | $148,988 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross Alabama Gulf Coast Chapter | Mobile, AL | $144,092 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Gulf Coast Inc | Mobile, AL | $135,926 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hope for All Gulf Coast | Mobile, AL | $125,728 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc | Mobile, AL | $123,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wilmer Hall Children's Home | Mobile, AL | $119,872 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dearborn Young Mens Chrstian Association | Mobile, AL | $116,367 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Drug Education Council Inc | Mobile, AL | $109,767 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mulherin Custodial Home Inc | Mobile, AL | $105,320 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Arc of Southwest Alabama | Chatom, AL | $104,506 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Mobile Inc | Mobile, AL | $88,808 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mckemie Place Inc | Mobile, AL | $83,416 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Altapointe Health Systems (fka Mobile Assoc for Retarted Citizens) | Mobile, AL | $79,371 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Catholic Social Services | Mobile, AL | $76,987 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Crittenton Youth Services | Mobile, AL | $72,929 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regional Child Advocacy Center Inc | Grove Hill, AL | $64,562 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Learning Tree Inc | Mobile, AL | $62,914 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Family Promise of Coastal Alabama Inc | Mobile, AL | $61,410 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sickle Cell Disease Association of American-Mobile Chapter Inc | Mobile, AL | $54,026 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| AIDS Alabama Inc | Birmingham, AL | $52,033 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Child Day Care Association | Mobile, AL | $42,048 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Alpha Womens Resource Center Inc | Jackson, AL | $29,553 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Altapointe Health Systems | Mobile, AL | $25,593 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| CASA Mobile Inc | Mobile, AL | $16,150 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arc of Clarke County Inc | Jackson, AL | $12,199 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Marys Home | Mobile, AL | $11,759 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| YMCA of South Alabama Inc | Daphne, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mobile Community Action | Mobile, AL | $9,796 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program | Mobile, AL | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
35 of 41 (85%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- American Red Cross Alabama Gulf Coast Chapter
DONOR DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 35 | $1,482,804 | $30,867 |
| 2021 | 37 | $1,550,985 | $37,613 |
| 2022 | 37 | $1,412,998 | $34,397 |
| 2023 | 29 | $510,647 | $14,242 |
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
96% of its giving went to organizations in Alabama. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $28,913 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alabama.
- 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 United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Post Office Drawer 89, Mobile, AL, 36601.
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