· Private foundation
Wiregrass Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $414k
- $250k+7 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| WIREGRASS UNITED WAY | $450,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION | $250,000 |
| WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,914 |
| WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP | $126,234 |
| SE AL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $85,097 |
| Individual grant recipient | $51,439 |
| CHRYSALIS A HOME FOR GIRLS | $46,770 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $40,000 |
| WIREGRASS ANGEL HOUSE | $39,000 |
| MARY HILL FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $38,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 15 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF ARMY AVIATION - OZARK5× · 2018–2022 · $770k · revenue +108% · 55% of their budget
- WPWIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $552k · revenue +980%
- WHWIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC8× · 2018–2025 · $485k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- ODOZARK DALE CO LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $200k
- HCHOUSTON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $104k
- SSARCOAone grant, 2019 · $74k
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.
To develop natural and human resources to furher conservation for the benefit of the general public To promote soil and water conservation To develop the natural resources in a 10 county area of Alabama
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To provide a summer camp facility within a christian environment. approximately 750 children are served annually.
The mission of the organization is to reduce the effects of proverty in walker county, al
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
To promote the common interest of those involved in the development & management of rural multi-family housing.
To work with animals concentrating on animal welfare, adoption, spay/neuter, and community awareness in the wiregrass area. in addition, we work with other shelters throughout the southeast by transporting adoptable animals to locations…
To provide total care for the low-income, mentally ill, and homeless population.
Hope For Women, LLC, will operate a Christian based, charitable treatment center for recovering female addicts in Walker County, Alabama that provides a place for shelter and recovery to women suffering from alcohol and drug addiction and…
The mission is to mobilize churches, organizations, corporations, and government entities to create partnerships that build capacity through strategic bridges of opportunities for low-moderate income families which lead to community…
The hospice of northwest alabama's primary purpose is to provide health care for terminally ill patients. this care primarily consists of counseling for the patients and their families and nursing care provided in the patient's home and/or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ark Dothan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 166 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 WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARMY AVIATION - OZARK ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS ANGEL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TIME YOUTH DOTHAN INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS REHAB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS A HOME FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA DANCE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALABAMA YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MARY HILL FAMILY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Impact America ↗
- Who funds LOVE IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds OZARK DALE COUNTY LIBRARY 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · Wiregrass United Way Inc · Dove Family Foundation · The Coleman Foundation · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation · Newton Family Foundation Inc · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc
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 Wiregrass 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.
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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