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Wo and Ann Powers Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$19MRecreation & Sports$242kHealth$20kHuman Services$14kYouth Development$10kReligion$7kHousing & Shelter$6kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEMSON FOUNDATION$4,000,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 20%HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE: $1k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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Florence Christian Home
Human Services
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Life House Church

Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.

Religion
3
Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce

To provide the necessary leadership to promote and enhance the business climate and quality of life in florence county and the pee dee region.

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4
Florence Habitat for Humanity

To provide decent, safe housing for low-income individuals and assist with repairs and refurbishment services for low income homeowners.

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5
Florence Symphony Orchestra

The florence symphony orchestra's mission is to perform a broad range of orchestral music including appropriate genres of classical, american traditional and popular music, and to engage, educate and enrich our audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
6
Lighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc

For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.

Human Services
7
Florence Tennis Association

To promote the growth and development of tennis

Recreation & Sports
8
Florence Area Humane Society

To provide veterinary care, vaccines, medicine, food and a nurturing environment to restore animals from abused and neglected situations to a healthy life.

Animals
9
Faith Christian School of Rocky Mount Inc

Faith christian school challenges students to learn, lead and serve in order to explore god's divine calling in their lives. faith christian school guides students on their spiritual journeys by providing excellent instruction, practice,…

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10
Youth for Christ Inc Fayetteville Area

Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
11
Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc

We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of children from economically challenged families with the goal of preparing children for a lifetime commitment to learning and empowering their…

Human Services
12
Florence County Museum Foundation

Serving as a fine arts support organization for the florence county museum, an administrative division and instrumentatality of florence county, south carolina.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Florence County; the most unlike its peers is All 4 Autism. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEMSON FOUNDATION: $18,500,000 · OtherCLEMSON FOUNDATION+12 more: $285,972 · OtherCHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER OF FLORENCE CO: $6,750 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesALL 4 AUTISM: $5,000 · HealthFLORENCE SYMPHONY GUILD: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$18,785,972Human Services$12,750Health$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000Youth Development$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER OF FLORENCE CO: $6,750 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER FLORENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALL 4 AUTISM: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily YMCA of Greater Florence: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE SYMPHONY GUILD: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wo and Ann Powers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wo and Ann Powers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Wo and Ann Powers Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wo and Ann Powers Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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