· Private foundation
William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of WILLIAM HOWARD FLOWERS JR FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
236 repeat relationships — 186 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- AFARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +99%
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +82%
- TLTHOMASVILLE LANDMARKS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $994k · revenue +47% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- FPFIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF DENHAM SPRINGSone grant, 2017 · $100k
- LHLEWIS HALL SINGLETARY ONCOLOGY CENTER - ARCHBOLD FOUND INCone grant, 2017 · $100k
- YFYMCA - FRANCIS F WESTONone grant, 2020 · $45k
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The mission of the rocky mountain elk foundation (rmef) is to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage. our mission includes four core programs; land protection and access, hunting heritage, habitat…
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…
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,…
By providing financial resources for those in need and educational resources to our community, birchbark foundation empowers people to make informed decisions in times of crisis and to be better advocates for their pets
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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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation. 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 35 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 317 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE-THOMAS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MISS KITTY FELINE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds LAWSON NEEL MEDBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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- Who funds THOMASVILLE CULTURAL CENTER 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: Williams Family Foundation of Georgia Inc · Parker Poe Charitable Trust · Lewis Hall and Mildred Sasser Singletary Foundation Inc · Thomasville Antiques Show Foundation Inc · Jasper & Marthalene Davis Foundation Inc · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · The Claire H B Jonklaas Foundation · George E Crouch Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation
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 William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation Inc 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.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Refuge House Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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