· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity | $2,000 |
| Cultural Arts Center | $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 |
| Friends of the Library | $1,000 |
| Wiregrass Museum of Art | $1,000 |
| Dothan Rescue Mission | $1,000 |
| Turkeys from Heaven | $1,000 |
| Oak Grove United Methodist Church | $1,000 |
| In Christ's Name Fund FUMC | $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, $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 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 +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 106 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 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 SISKIYOU INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF DOTHAN ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION 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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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