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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of WS FOUNDATION INC BLACKSHER WHITE-SPUNNER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE | $68,300 |
| WINGS OF LIFE | $9,500 |
| VETERANS MEMORIAL RECOVERY TEAM | $9,500 |
| DRUG EDUCATION COUNCIL | $3,500 |
| RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $3,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VRVETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES2× · 2022–2023 · $46k · revenue +93%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +47%
- DEDrug Education Council Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- THTHOMAS HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $10k
- ASALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $8k
- FTFOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COASTone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
Promote stewardship of the marine environment.
To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Developing Futures 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Hargrove Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds Home of Grace For Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Autism2Ability Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 organization Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner 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.
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 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.
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