- Revenue 2024
- $23,055,184
- Expenses 2024
- $13,945,107
Program services were 92.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T31
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 332
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
MOBILIZING GENEROSITY TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
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The Community Foundation administers donor advised funds, designated funds, field of interest funds, agency funds and scholarship funds.
Expenses $12,241,572 · Grants $12,202,175 · Revenue $510,931
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The Compass Society awarded a grant of $50,000 each to Huntsville Hospital Foundation and United Way of Madison County. In addition, the Compass Endowment had a balance at the end of 2024 of $1,244,241.
Expenses $207,007 · Grants $100,000
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The Women's Philanthropy Society awarded grants in the amount of $50,000 each to Boys and Girls Clubs of North Alabama and WellStone. In addition, the Women's Endowment had a balance at the end of 2024 of $499,554.
Expenses $195,224 · Grants $100,000
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The Racial Equity Fund selected seven nonprofits to receive a total of $73,250 in grants to help close equity gaps. In addition, the Racial Equity Endowment had a balance at the end of 2024 of $358,924.
Expenses $155,701 · Grants $73,250
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The members of give256 awarded $16,280 in grants to eight nonprofit organizations, which gave emerging philanthropists a voice and a greater impact with their generosity. In addition, the give256 Endowment had a balance at the end of 2024 of $131,072.
Expenses $34,449 · Grants $16,280
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Garfield Wilbur Boon III
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Penny Billings
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Sidney Ray White Jr
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Susan Lynn Troy
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Brad Garland
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Christopher Russell
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Clay Hagan
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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D Ashley Jones
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Douglas C Martinson II
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Elizabeth Abel
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gary Whitley Jr
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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George Smith
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Henry L Isenberg III
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jay Dryden
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Katherine Elizabeth Sippel
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kristina Hendrix
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Leta Demaioribus
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lori Womack
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Melissa Thompson
CEO/President
- Total calculated
- $133,645
- From this org
- $127,811
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,834
- Hours/week
- 40
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $23,055,184
- Expenses
- $13,945,107
- Contributions
- $19,614,324
- Grants paid
- $12,491,705
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2023
- Revenue
- $17,823,410
- Expenses
- $15,700,525
- Contributions
- $16,114,708
- Grants paid
- $14,402,276
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2022
- Revenue
- $14,359,826
- Expenses
- $11,421,752
- Contributions
- $12,744,026
- Grants paid
- $10,277,669
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $14,690,741
- Expenses
- $6,178,036
- Assets (EOY)
- $48,014,878
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $16,460,622
- Expenses
- $6,352,591
- Assets (EOY)
- $38,106,163
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,940,148
- Expenses
- $4,407,506
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,229,948
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,943,017
- Expenses
- $4,132,772
- Assets (EOY)
- $20,370,560
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,012,383
- Expenses
- $2,277,148
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,362,013
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,274,324
- Expenses
- $2,640,263
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,922,147
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,217,735
- Expenses
- $1,880,109
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,918,621
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,881,239
- Expenses
- $1,734,862
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,443,670
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,095,596
- Expenses
- $1,646,299
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,311,487
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,134,339
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,859,020
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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$1,602,765
2023 NEIGHBORHOOD/COMMUNITY
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FRIENDS OF HUNTSVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION
$1,596,494
2022 NEIGHBORHOOD/COMMUNITY
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FRIENDS OF HUNTSVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION
$1,122,645
2023 NEIGHBORHOOD/COMMUNITY
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$911,300
2023 BASIC NEEDS
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2022 LIFESTYLE
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$651,700
2024 Capital Campign and various Scholarships
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City of Huntsville
$600,000
2024 Huntsville City Football Club Stadium
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CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
$575,000
2023 LIFESTYLE
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WHITESBURG BAPTIST CHURCH
$563,725
2023 RELIGION RELATED
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BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE
$500,000
2023 EDUCATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$1,321,968
2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$123,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$90,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$60,134
2022 PHILANTHROPY
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2022 ANNUAL GRANT PAYMENT FY23 CENTER OF EXCELLENCE/RESEARCH
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$22,500
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.