· Private foundation
Wiregrass Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wiregrass Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wiregrass Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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