Alabama · Private foundation
Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner
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.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $68,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 6 | $95k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $60k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $25k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $62k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans Recovery Resources | $45,750 | 2 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc | $36,500 | 2 | 3% |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $15,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Veterans Memorial Recovery Team | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Drug Education Council Inc | $9,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wings of Life Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc | $8,700 | 2 | 0% |
| The Hargrove Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| All Saints Episcopal Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mobile Baykeeper Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner supplied at peak.
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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: Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Cox Family Charitable Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn
How this is measured
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About Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner
- How much does Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner give?
- Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner reported 6 grants totaling $95,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Health (15%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Veterans Recovery Resources ($46k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ($37k), St Pauls Episcopal Church ($16k).
- Does Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation, Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner based?
- Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner is based in AL.
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