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The Hare Wynn Foundation at a glance

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The Hare Wynn 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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$168kHealth$123kPublic Benefit$28kHuman Services$16kAnimals$10kHousing & Shelter$4kYouth Development$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA$10,000
GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$4,000
ALABAMA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION$1,250
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ALABAMA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BOYS AND GIRLS RANCHES OF ALABAMA INC: $250 → 18%THE FOUNDRY RESCUE MISSION AND RECOVERY CENTER: $3k → 16%THE FOUNDRY RESCUE MISSION AND RECOVERY CENTER: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $2k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $2k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 17 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$323k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+65%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +81%
  • LF
    Libbys Friends
    3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +853%
  • TG
    THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • MM
    MAGIC MOMENTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +94%
  • LF
    LAKESHORE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +46%
  • AA
    ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
3
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
4
Alabama Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics

Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.

Health
5
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
6
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
7
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
8
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
9
Aids Alabama Inc

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.

Health
10
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
11
Alabama Casa Network Inc

The mission of the alabama casa network, inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
12
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW: $150,000 · OtherCUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAWDOWNTOWN YMCA STRONG KIDS CAMPAIGN: $27,500 · OtherDOWNTOWN YMCA STRONG KIDS CAMPAIGNYWCA: $8,500 · Other+13 more: $12,050 · Other+13 moreAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation: $72,000 · HealthAlabama Children's Hospital Foundatio…Libbys Friends: $20,000 · HealthLibbys FriendsThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $10,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of AlabamaALABAMA HEAD INJURY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+7 more: $8,075 · Health+7 moreBIRMINGHAM BAR FOUNDATION: $10,250 · PhilanthropyHOPE FOR AUTUMN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,150 · AnimalsALABAMA CIVIL JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $6,960 · Crime & LegalFIRST LIGHT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $2,750 · Human ServicesALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $250 · Human ServicesTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,060 · Recreation & Sports
Other$198,050Health$115,075Philanthropy$11,250Animals$10,150Crime & Legal$6,960Human Services$6,500Recreation & Sports$3,060

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation: $72,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLibbys Friends: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBIRMINGHAM BAR FOUNDATION: $10,250 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA CIVIL JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $6,960 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALABAMA HEAD INJURY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $2,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RED BARN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR AUTUMN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…The Community Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Junior League of Birm…Debardeleben Foundati…The Maynard Nexsen Fo…The Long Lewis Founda…The Robert and Lois L…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · The Long Lewis Foundation · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hare Wynn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hare Wynn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Hare Wynn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hare Wynn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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