Alabama · Private foundation
Robert and Carol Flowers 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.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,383
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $855k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $75k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $70k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $75k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $74k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $17k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $40k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $73k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $66k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dothan Rescue Mission Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Peachtree Road Methodist Church | $31,165 | 7 | n/a |
| The Exceptional Foundation | $29,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Southeast Education Inc | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| United Methodist Children's Home | $13,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Girls Inc of Dothan | $9,950 | 8 | 1% |
| Wiregrass Museum of Art Inc | $8,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Cultural Arts Center Inc | $6,280 | 9 | 1% |
| Friends of the Library Inc | $6,275 | 8 | n/a |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $6,250 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($328k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · Wiregrass Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · The Coleman Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation · Pleiad Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation with peer funders
About Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation
- How much does Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation give?
- Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $76,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Human Services (16%), Education (9%).
- Who are Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dothan Rescue Mission Inc ($39k), Peachtree Road Methodist Church ($31k), The Exceptional Foundation ($29k).
- Does Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation, Wiregrass Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.
- Where is Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation based?
- Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation is based in AL.
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