· 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 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 $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 |
| Rotary Foundation | $3,000 |
| Communities of Transformation | $3,000 |
| Salvation Army | $2,683 |
| City Hope | $2,000 |
| Wiregrass Area Food Bank | $1,625 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $1,000 |
| Blayne Hardy Barfield Foundation | $1,000 |
| Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers | $1,000 |
| Blake Wood Foundation | $500 |
| Friends of the Library | $500 |
| Providence Christian School | $500 |
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 (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 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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Policy Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 64 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 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 DOTHAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOTHAN ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney 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 · 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
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 The George & Laura 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.
- Diakonia Inc — 51% 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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