Your Town Alabama Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522268805
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2056230147
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rural Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,442
- Expenses
- $129,171
- Assets
- $138,817
- Liabilities
- $509
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- BRANDON BIAS (DIRECTOR)
- JIM BYARD (SECRETARY)
- KELLIE JOHNSTON (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Education: your town Alabama inspires and educates alabamians to use asset-based design for setting and achieving community goals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Your town Alabama is a fiscal sponser for stickbuilt. Stickbuilt hosts a five-day design workshop for 3rd and 4th year architecture professionals and educators. Stickbuilts program closely aligns with your town Alabama by encouraging asset-based design and planning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 80.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $125K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.