· Private foundation
The George & Laura 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 $10k16 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | $55,275 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| United Way | $5,000 |
| Dothan Boys and Girls Club | $3,500 |
| Communities of Transformation | $3,000 |
| Rotary Foundation | $3,000 |
| Salvation Army | $2,683 |
| City Hope | $2,000 |
| Wiregrass Area Food Bank | $1,625 |
| Blayne Hardy Barfield Foundation | $1,000 |
| Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers | $1,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Library | $500 |
| Blake Wood Foundation | $500 |
| Providence Christian School | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +74%- WAWIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +148%
- BHBLAYNE HARDY BARFIELD FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- LFLove for Lubbers Dorianone grant, 2019 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WFWallace Foundationone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Social services
To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.
The wiregrass pet rescue and adoption center is dedicated to creating an exemplary animal shelter and pet adoption and community friendly facility in dothan/houston county, alabama. wprac will provide for the basic needs for domesticated…
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
The hospice of northwest alabama's primary purpose is to provide health care for terminally ill patients. this care primarily consists of counseling for the patients and their families and nursing care provided in the patient's home and/or…
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
To operate and maintain a protective shelter for battered and/or abused women, men, and children or those affected by family violence.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 64 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BLAYNE HARDY BARFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TIME YOUTH DOTHAN INC ↗
- Who funds TURKEYS FROM HEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds City Hope ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE DOTHAN ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S RESOURCE CENTER 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 · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Coleman Foundation · Newton Family Foundation Inc · Dove Family Foundation · Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Carmax Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George & Laura Flowers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George & Laura Flowers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Diakonia Inc: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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