Alabama · Private foundation
Wiregrass Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $120M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Wiregrass Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $3.7M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $2.9M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $3.8M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $3.1M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $3.5M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $3.1M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 70 | $3.6M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiregrass United Way Inc | $3,263,700 | 8 | 14% |
| Gsmbc Community Development Corporation | $825,000 | 2 | 96% |
| Friends of Army Aviation - Ozark | $770,412 | 5 | 55% |
| Spectracare Health Systems Inc | $757,990 | 3 | n/a |
| Wiregrass Pet Rescue & Adoption Center Inc | $551,500 | 4 | 9% |
| Wiregrass Hope Group Inc | $484,927 | 8 | 19% |
| Wiregrass Angel House Inc | $263,033 | 8 | 16% |
| Time Youth Dothan Inc | $263,000 | 5 | 28% |
| Wiregrass Area Food Bank Inc | $258,615 | 6 | 13% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wiregrass Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Wiregrass Foundation
- How much does Wiregrass Foundation give?
- Wiregrass Foundation reported 111 grants totaling $3,723,521 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wiregrass Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (34%), Philanthropy (12%), Health (9%).
- Who are Wiregrass Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Wiregrass United Way Inc ($3.3M), Gsmbc Community Development Corporation ($825k), Friends of Army Aviation - Ozark ($770k).
- Does Wiregrass Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wiregrass Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wiregrass Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation.
- Where is Wiregrass Foundation based?
- Wiregrass Foundation is based in AL.
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