· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - DOTHAN | $27,383 |
| EMBRACE | $7,500 |
| THE HARBOR CHURCH | $7,100 |
| WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $1,100 |
| DOTHAN AREA BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,060 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,060 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF DOTHAN | $1,000 |
| DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS - BRIGHT KEY | $1,000 |
| THE MOUNT VERNON FUND | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- DRDOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +21%
- TETHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +33%
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- PRPeachree Road United Methodist Churchone grant, 2017 · $21k
- COChurch of the Living Watersone grant, 2018 · $6k
- UOUniversity of Alabamaone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Children's miracle network (dba "children's miracle network hospitals") works to save kids' lives by bringing people together to raise money for children's healthcare in local communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 103 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 DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF DOTHAN ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW WATER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Robert and Carol Flowers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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.