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William & Carroll Flowers Foundation at a glance

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William & Carroll 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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$129kEnvironment$74kPhilanthropy$73kEducation$41kAnimals$17kCrime & Legal$8kCivil Rights$6kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$700k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cultural Arts Center$10,000
Dothan Area Botanical Gardens$10,000
Wiregrass United Way$10,000
Alabama Public Television$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Kitty Kottage$1,500
Dothan Houston County Library System$1,000
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Sierra Club: $750 → 10%Dare to Dream: $750 → 14%Furman University: $26k → 10%Wiregrass Rose Society: $2k → 16%Alabama Public Television: $5k → 16%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $25k → 17%Equal Justice Initiative: $3k → 18%Troy Public Radio: $5k → 27%Hacienda Community Development Corporation: $750 → 12%Serenity Hill Inc: $5k → 8%Oakhurst Cooperative Preschool: $2k → 14%Alabama Public Television: $5k → 16%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $10k → 17%Troy Public Radio: $2k → 18%Troy Public Radio: $5k → 27%Alabama Public Television: $5k → 16%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $10k → 17%ACLU of Alabama Foundation: $5k → 18%Troy Public Radio: $3k → 27%Alabama Public Television: $3k → 16%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $10k → 17%Troy Public Radio: $3k → 27%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $8k → 17%Dothan Houston County Library System: $5k → 17%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $5k → 17%Dothan Area Botanical Gardens: $5k → 17%Dothan Houston County Library System: $3k → 17%Dothan Houston County Library System: $3k → 17%Dothan Houston County Library: $2k → 17%Dothan Houston County Library System: $1k → 17%Wiregrass Humane Society: $1k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $10k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $10k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $10k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $5k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $5k → 17%Free2Be: $5k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $5k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $3k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $3k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $3k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $3k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $3k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $3k → 17%Cultural Arts Center: $2k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $2k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $1k → 17%Kitty Kottage: $1k → 17%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 10 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$320k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+3%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEnvironmentAnimalsCivil RightsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • DB
    DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +254%
  • DL
    DOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +22%
  • CA
    CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +26%
  • F
    Free2Be
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SH
    Serenity Hill Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
2
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
3
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia Inc

The aclu of georgia is dedicated to preserving the civil liberties enshrined in the u.s. constitution and bill of rights. through litigation, lobbying, and communications, the aclu of georgia works to preserve and enhance the rights of all…

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5
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy

The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…

Education
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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8
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska

Preservation and promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.

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10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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11
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
12
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Reproductive Care - Southeast; the most unlike its peers is Serenity Hill 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

18 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. 18 of the 25 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherDOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INCAlabama Public Television: $17,500 · OtherAlabama Public TelevisionIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $11,000 · OtherDOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMFree2Be: $5,000 · OtherSerenity Hill Inc: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $10,850 · Other+10 moreDOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $73,000 · EnvironmentDOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDE…+1 more: $750 · EnvironmentWIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC: $72,500 · PhilanthropyWIREGRASS UNITED WAY I…CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $49,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ARTS C…FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationKITTY KOTTAGE: $16,000 · AnimalsWIREGRASS HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$125,850Environment$73,750Philanthropy$72,500Arts & Culture$49,500Education$26,000Animals$17,000Civil Rights$7,500

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 budgetDOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $73,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetWIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC: $72,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDOTHAN LANDMARKS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $49,500 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITTY KOTTAGE: $16,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetDOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKHURST COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIREGRASS HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN HOPE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $750 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.

Wiregrass FoundationThe Paul & Barbara Fl…The Coleman FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Wiregrass FoundationAL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wiregrass Foundation · The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · The Coleman Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 William & Carroll Flowers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Carroll Flowers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation: 48% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 25 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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