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Flowers Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Church of the Ascension | $4,000 |
| Feast Food Pantry | $4,000 |
| South Carolina Historical Society | $2,500 |
| Univ of South Carolina Foundation Darla Moore School of Business | $2,500 |
| Darren Daulton Foundation | $2,500 |
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $2,500 |
| Sewell Baseball and Softball | $2,500 |
| GMHC | $2,000 |
| Metropolitan Ministries | $2,000 |
| The Women's Center | $2,000 |
| St Alban's Episcopal Church | $2,000 |
| Arlington Livestock FFA Booster Club | $2,000 |
| Hope Villages of America | $2,000 |
| Gloucester City Sail | $2,000 |
| Hope Farm | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GCGLOUCESTER CITY SAIL2× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +11%
- TSTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +73%
- GMGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- NSNORTHWINDS SAIL GLOUCESTER CITY SAILone grant, 2023 · $6k
- BCBALD CREEK RELIEFone grant, 2024 · $5k
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY FFA BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
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To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
The raptor trust is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned raptors in new jersey and beyond. we strive to educate the public about the vital role these magnificent birds play in our ecosystem,…
Our mission is to prevent cruelty and suffering to animals, rescue the trapped or injured, provide emergency medical treatment and temporary housing to the homeless animals, and to reduce pet overpopulation through various spay/neuter and…
To improve the lives of pets and people in the community; to provide and promote education concerning the proper care of animals; to provide medical services, socialization, and enrichment to animals; (see schedule o for continuation)to…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Temple University Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 177 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GLOUCESTER CITY SAIL ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DARREN DAULTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds BALD CREEK RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SEWELL BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds Just Strays Animal Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PICKLED MANSFIELD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS & CRAFTS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · Connelly Foundation · America's Charities · The Philadelphia Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Bonner Family Private Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Flowers Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Creativity Colaboratory Charter School a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Kimberly Home — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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