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The Paul & Barbara 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 $10k34 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | $33,200 |
| Wallace Community College Foundation | $2,500 |
| St Pius X Catholic High School | $2,000 |
| Cultural Arts Center | $2,000 |
| Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Chrysalis A Home for Girls | $1,500 |
| Wiregrass Area Food Bank | $1,500 |
| Southeast Alabama Community Theatre | $1,131 |
| Turkeys from Heaven | $1,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $1,000 |
| Wiregrass Hope Group | $1,000 |
| Wiregrass United Way | $1,000 |
| Wiregrass Museum of Art | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Library | $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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CACULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +98%
- VPVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue ×200
Funded once
- FOFriends of Vail Mountain Rescueone grant, 2018 · $3k
- CHCOVENANT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -54%
- SSSTEGALL SEMINARY SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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,…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
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.
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant Hospice Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mark Donohue Foundation Inc. 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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 106 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 CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds TURKEYS FROM HEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF DOTHAN ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FELINES UNDER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS A HOME FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS DRIVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK 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: Wiregrass Foundation · Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · The Coleman Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · William & Carroll Flowers Foundation · Newton Family Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Julian T Turner Charitable Trust Regions Bank
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 Paul & Barbara 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.
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