· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,060 |
| DOTHAN AREA BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,060 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY | $1,000 |
| THE BELL CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF DOTHAN | $1,000 |
| DOTHAN CITY SCHOOLS - BRIGHT KEY | $1,000 |
| CHRYSALIS | $1,000 |
| WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC ↗
- 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 WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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