About Black Belt Community Foundation
Those closest to the challenges are closest to the solutions — supporting community-led solutions across Alabama's Black Belt.
Focus Areas
ArtsCommunity developmentEarly childhood education / Head StartHealth & wellnessDisaster relief & storm recoveryEconomic developmentRacial justice
Who They Fund
Black girls and young Black womenResidents of the Black Belt / rural Southern communitiesDisaster-affected communities and familiesFamilies served by community health programs (e.g., Healthy Families)Justice-involved or impacted individuals (criminal justice reform focus)
About Black Belt Community Foundation
The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc. channels much of its recent grantmaking toward community-led work in Alabama’s Black Belt, with especially visible support for Black girls and young women, disaster recovery, and local capacity building. In 2025, its larger awards include $457,027 to Fund for Southern Communities for Black Girl Dream grants and $150,000 to Gospel Tabernacle Church for disaster relief. Those grants sit alongside a mix of regional partners and local organizations, showing a funder that uses both intermediary grantmaking and direct community support. The foundation also backs place-based responses to urgent needs. It gave $100,000 each to Coalition of Concerned Families and Greene County Human Rights Commission for disaster relief, and $128,000 each to Divine Girls Coalition and Hale County Community Enrichment Society for disaster grants. In the same period, it supported education and infrastructure work through awards such as $50,000 to Columbia World Project for wastewater infrastructure and $36,000 to Hale County Board of Education for a STEM subaward. Across these grants, the pattern is consistent: fund local organizations, support community recovery, and invest in programs tied to Black Belt residents.
What Black Belt Community Foundation Funds
Black girls and young women appear as a clear priority in the foundation’s recent grantmaking. It awarded $242,750 to Fund for Southern Communities for Black Girl Dream grants and $103,000 to Truthspeaks Innovation Foundation for the 2024 Black Girl Dream Fund. A related award of $58,750 went to Alabama Institute for Social Justice for SBGWC: Black Girl Dream. Disaster response is another major theme. The foundation gave $150,000 to Dallas County Family Resource Center for disaster relief and $100,000 to Hale County Community Enrichment Society for disaster relief, while also making $128,000 disaster grants to Greene County Foster & Adoptive Parents Association and Divine Girls Coalition. Its topic mix also includes food and infrastructure. In 2023, it awarded $84,000 to The United Christian Community Association Inc for a Black Belt food sustainability application, and in 2025 it funded wastewater infrastructure work through $50,000 to Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Program.
How Black Belt Community Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.9M
Total Assets
$26.3M
Total Revenue
$11.5M
Total Expenses
$14M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7K and $25K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$7K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Regional10 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
FELECIA LUCKY
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