Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$805,526

Total expenses

$624,395

Contributions and grants received

$805,071

Grants paid

$1,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$455

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$703,319

Total liabilities, end of year

$48,292

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$655,027

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$586,339

Management and general expenses

$38,056

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$586,339

Program services were 93.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• ALTERNATIVE FUEL AND VEHICLE USAGE AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTSTHE ORGANIZATION CONTINUED ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S (DOE) CLEAN CITIES PROGRAM AS A DESIGNATED CLEAN CITIES COALITION. THE PROGRAM PROMOTES THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VEHICLES (AFV) TO EXPAND THE MARKET FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS, CREATE JOB OPPORTUNITIES, IMPROVE AIR QUALITY, AND TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN SOURCES OF ENERGY. DURING 2024, ACFC AND ITS MEMBERS AND STAKEHOLDERS WORKED TO PROVIDE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES WITH INFORMATION ON THE BENEFITS OF AFVS AND TO IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT AFV USES AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS WAS SIGNIFICANT IN ALABAMA IN 2024 AND PROVIDED A REDUCTION IN THE USE OF PETROLEUM OF MORE THAN 18.4 MILLION GALLONS OF GASOLINE-GALLON EQUIVALENT (GGE) AND 158,800 TONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, REPRESENTING A 6.93% AND 23.72% INCREASE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, RESPECTIVELY. DURING 2024, ALTERNATIVE FUELS (E85 ETHANOL, B20 BIODIESEL, AND PROPANE) CONTINUED TO BE INCLUDED ON THE STATE FUEL CONTRACT. IN ADDITION TO BEING AVAILABLE TO STATE AGENCIES, THESE ALTERNATIVE FUELS CAN BE PURCHASED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM APPROVED VENDORS IN ALL 67 COUNTIES IN ALABAMA. ACFC ALSO SERVES AS THE EV CONSULTANT FOR THE STATE OF ALABAMA. THROUGH THESE EFFORTS, ACFC ASSISTS THE STATE OF ALABAMA WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING, WHICH INCLUDES THEIR PLANS FOR THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE (NEVI) FORMULA PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE ALABAMA ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM. ADDITIONALLY, ACFC ASSISTED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE'S EV INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT APPLICATION USED BY THE STATE TO SELECT LOCATIONS FOR THE NEWLY FUNDED EV CHARGING STATIONS. ACFC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND INCREASED THE AVAILABILITY OF CLEANER-BURNING FUELS TO THE PUBLIC IN ALABAMA DURING CALENDAR YEAR 2024 AND BEYOND. INCREASING AVAILABILITY OF THESE FUELS WILL IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND SUPPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OPPORTUNITIES. IN ADDITION, OTHER POTENTIAL PROJECTS WERE IDENTIFIED FOR FUTURE FUNDING AND/OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

  Expenses $396,069

• EDUCATION: DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ACFC SUPPORTED DRIVE ELECTRIC ALABAMA EV OWNER CHAPTERS IN HOLDING NUMEROUS EV SHOWCASES ACROSS THE STATE IN 2024, INCLUDING THOSE SCHEDULED AROUND EARTH DAY AND NATIONAL DRIVE ELECTRIC WEEK. OTHER OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS BY ACFC DURING 2024 INCLUDED NUMEROUS STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS, PRESENTATIONS TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, AND RESPONDING TO NUMEROUS MEDIA AND CONSUMER INQUIRIES ON ALTERNATIVE FUELS. MANY OF THESE MEETINGS AND EVENTS GENERATED MEDIA COVERAGE WHICH ENABLED THE MESSAGING REACH TO BE EXPANDED SIGNIFICANTLY. THROUGH ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE AS WELL AS THE MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA GENERATED, THESE OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES REACHED MORE THAN 26,596 PEOPLE THROUGH PERSONAL CONTACT PLUS MILLIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSIONS. ACFC'S WEBSITE PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE BENEFITS OF AFV'S AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS. DURING 2024, ACFC RESPONDED TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION. EXAMPLES OF TYPICAL REQUESTS ARE FROM INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN CLEAN FUEL/AFV INFORMATION AND CLEAN FUEL STATION LOCATIONS AND REQUESTS FROM TEACHERS FOR CURRICULUM RELATED INFORMATION ON AFV'S AND AIR QUALITY. ACFC ALSO HELPED TO GENERATE PRINT AND ONLINE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ACROSS THE STATE ON VARIOUS ALTERNATIVE FUEL PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES. THESE ACFC ACTIVITIES FURTHER AN EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE BY DISSEMINATING INFORMATION REGARDING POTENTIAL FINANCIAL COSTS, SAVINGS, AND BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF AFV PROJECTS AND THE ASSOCIATED BENEFITS WHICH INCLUDE CLEANER AIR.

  Expenses $190,270 · Grants $1,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER OF ALABAMA

  501(C)(4) · IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. · AL

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

14 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

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