How much did WILLIAM HOWARD FLOWERS JR FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of WILLIAM HOWARD FLOWERS JR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

saintseniorconservationland

2019

seniorlandconservationanimal rescuepreservation

2020

historydonkey rescueconservationlandcitizenspreservationanimal rescue

2021

donkey rescuelovett

2022

atlantadonkey rescueseniorhistoryconservationlovettland

2023

parkatlantahistorydonkey rescueconservationlandlovett

2024

wibauxsaintphilipdonkey rescuewarhistoryconservation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 204 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k90 grants · $270k
$10k–50k85 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
$250k+1 grant · $520k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$95M

Total assets

Largest grants

BROOKWOOD SCHOOL$520,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$190,500
ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC$175,000
ANGEL TREE$140,000
FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$139,000
HEADSTRONG PROJECT$135,000
YMCA - BUTLER-MASON$135,000
AUCILLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$132,500
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES$130,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS$125,000
THE LOVETT SCHOOL$115,000
THOMASVILLE LANDMARKS$110,000
DPR LLC$103,800
JUDICIAL WATCH$100,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$37M · 239 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

239 repeat relationships — 188 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

239

Total granted

$37M

$882k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+23%

Still filing today

41%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

BS
BROOKWOOD SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +31%
AF
ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +36%
PF
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +47%

Funded once

FP
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF DENHAM SPRINGS
one grant, 2017 · $100k
LH
LEWIS HALL SINGLETARY ONCOLOGY CENTER - ARCHBOLD FOUND INC
one grant, 2017 · $100k
TC
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH GEORGIA DISASTER RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2018 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Humane Society for the Prevention

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

Animals

K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc

To ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage.

Animals

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

Conservation of unique character of tennessee's natural & historic landscapes & sites

Environment

Florida Animal Protection Foundation

Animals

Hawaiian Humane Society

To promote the human-animal bond and the humane treatment of all animals

Animals

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf has worked since 1961 to protect the future of nature. wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. the wwf network, of which wwf-us is part, is one of the world's leading…

Environment

The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals

Birchbark Foundation Inc

To honor the human-animal bond through financial assistance to vulnerable families faced with unaffordable medical expenses to save the life of a pet, and support for all families with our education and pet loss counseling programs.

Animals

Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy

The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals

National Foundation for Rescued Animals

To provide a safe and secure environment for animals in need of rescue or rehabilitation while conserving endangered and threatened species. our slogan is "saving animals one by one."

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Madeira School. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/131

the rest of the field

16%

9,180/58,170

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.

05the grantee network

118 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

116/118

Grantees still filing

92/118

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$24,179,371Education$5,678,000Health$2,220,500Animals$2,123,500Public Benefit$1,905,000Crime & Legal$1,155,000Science & Tech$677,750

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.

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.

Parker Poe Charitable TrustGA46.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Parker Poe Charitable Trust · Williams Family Foundation · Lewis Hall and Mildred Sasser · Thomasville Antiques Show Foundation Inc · Jasper & Marthalene Davis · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Second Harvest Of · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Claire H B Jonklaas Foundation · George E Crouch Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 organisation WILLIAM HOWARD FLOWERS JR 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~260 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201238224 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 260 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WILLIAM HOWARD FLOWERS JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

118 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation?

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WILLIAM HOWARD FLOWERS JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

118 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation?

More from the funding graph