How much did WIREGRASS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of WIREGRASS 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

water filtrationfiltration systemsspayroomlearningconferencedrug

2019

bldgupdatesecuritytechsystemtrainingupgrade

2020

virtualcomputerreplacetransitionalexpansionchild advocacyeducation

2021

covidtransportationfiresuppliesrehabilitationrenovationliving

2022

termite bondbond initialinitial startaware fairfair squarescholarshippatti rutland

2023

pull cordcord replacemententranceimprovements glenglen eastdancebest

2024

teendothan-houston intellectualintellectual disabildho promisecapital improvementsphysical capitalimprovements glen

2025

building improvementsdothan landmarkpassenger vanupgradesctfdho promisedance

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

03FY2025 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k61 grants · $212k
$10k–50k34 grants · $631k
$50k–250k4 grants · $414k
$250k+4 grants · $1.4M

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$120M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF DOTHAN$500,000
WIREGRASS UNITED WAY$450,000
WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION$250,000
CITY OF DOTHAN$250,000
CITY OF DOTHAN$150,914
WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP$126,234
SE AL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$85,097
CITY OF DOTHAN$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
WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP$35,000
DOTHAN LANDMARK PARK$32,725
TOWN OF COTTONWOOD$30,000

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 (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23M · 103 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

103 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103

Total granted

$23M

$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+63%

Still filing today

43%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

WC
WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
4× · 2018–2021 · $959k · revenue +334% · 63% of their budget
FO
FRIENDS OF ARMY AVIATION OZARK
5× · 2018–2022 · $770k · revenue +149% · 55% of their budget
WP
WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION
4× · 2022–2025 · $302k · revenue +14%

Funded once

OD
OZARK DALE CO LIBRARY
one grant, 2021 · $200k
HC
HOUSTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
one grant, 2021 · $104k
S
SARCOA
one grant, 2019 · $74k

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.

Alabama Angels Dog Rescue Inc

Not for profit, literary rescue of dogs

Animals

Dale County Rescue Mission

The Rescue Missions Purpose is to provide food, housing, transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients. Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services

Save a Pet Rescue Adoption and

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…

Animals

Wiregrass Rc&D Council

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

Environment

Randolph County Animal Shelter

Randolph county animal shelter was established to provide shelter for the homeless animals of randolph county alabama.

Animals

Wiregrass Christian Youth Camp Inc

To provide a summer camp facility within a christian environment. approximately 750 children are served annually.

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Wild Alabama Inc

Wild alabama's mission is to inspire people to enjoy, value, and protect the wild places of alabama.

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House of Grace

To offer a christ centered way out of a seemingly hopeless situation for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services

Wiregrass Animal Group Inc

Facilitate a no-kill solution for shelters and strays in the wiregrass area.

Animals

The Dothan Rotary Foundation Inc

The dothan rotary foundation sponsors several community service projects including education and human service activities.

Human Services

Carlorene House Inc

To provide total care for the low-income, mentally ill, and homeless population.

Housing & Shelter

Dothan Houston County Library

To provide materials and services which will help the community residents, and present and future affiliates of the wiregrass area to obtain information meeting their personal, educational and professional needs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ark Dothan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/67

the rest of the field

12%

602/4,904

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

58 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)

58/58

Grantees still filing

43/58

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$17,816,033Philanthropy$3,296,200Human Services$1,270,396Public Benefit$793,975Health$516,033Arts & Culture$343,097Animals$306,500

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL40.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Coleman Foundation · The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Wiregrass United Way Inc · Dove Family Foundation · John H Watson Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater · Carmax Foundation · Heersink Family 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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: GSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~35 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812247513 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 GSMBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP, 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 35 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Wiregrass Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wiregrass 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.

WIREGRASS 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

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wiregrass Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WIREGRASS 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

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wiregrass Foundation?

More from the funding graph