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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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$128kHealth$55kPublic Benefit$49kReligion$30kHousing & Shelter$21kPhilanthropy$16kArts & Culture$12kEducation$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$9,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE$68,300
VETERANS MEMORIAL RECOVERY TEAM$9,500
WINGS OF LIFE$9,500
DRUG EDUCATION COUNCIL$3,500
RAPE CRISIS CENTER$3,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DEVELOPING FUTURES FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%DEVELOPING FUTURES FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $750 → 7%FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $6k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $36k → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE: $500 → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NJ
CA
MO
VA
DC
OK
LA
AL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 32 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
35

Total granted

$231k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VR
    VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $46k · revenue +93%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc
    2× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +47%
  • DE
    Drug Education Council Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TH
    THOMAS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AS
    ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • FT
    FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Hope for All Gulf Coast

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc

Promote stewardship of the marine environment.

Environment
3
Conservation Al Foundation Inc

To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.

Education
4
Rebuilding Together of South Al

Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.

Housing & Shelter
5
Alabama Partnership for Children

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.

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

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…

Health
7
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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8
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Mothers Milk Bank of Alabama

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.

Human Services
10
Uab Educational Foundation

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.

Education
11
Gulf Coast Partnership Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc

The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 72 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE: $68,300 · OtherBALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGEST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15,500 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTHOMAS HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherVETERANS MEMORIAL RECOVERY TEAM: $9,500 · OtherDrug Education Council Inc: $9,500 · OtherWINGS OF LIFE INC: $9,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $8,550 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8,000 · Other+41 more: $87,805 · Other+41 moreVETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $45,750 · Public BenefitVETERANS RECOV…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $500 · Public BenefitRonald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc: $36,500 · Human ServicesRonald McDona…FOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $6,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING TOG…MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $8,700 · HealthAutism2Ability Inc: $4,500 · HealthHome of Grace For Women Inc: $4,500 · HealthVictory Health Partners Inc: $3,500 · HealthMISSION OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · HealthINFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $600 · HealthThe Hargrove Foundation Inc: $8,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,300 · PhilanthropyMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE INC: $4,800 · Community ImprovementTHE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC: $3,250 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM FOCUS INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $500 · Youth Development
Other$226,655Public Benefit$48,750Human Services$45,750Health$23,800Philanthropy$14,300Community Improvement$8,050Youth Development$7,000

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 budgetVETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES: $45,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc: $36,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDrug Education Council Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWINGS OF LIFE INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOzanam Charitable Pharmacy Inc: $8,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hargrove Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTERING TOGETHER GULF COAST: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budget100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE INC: $4,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAutism2Ability Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHome of Grace For Women Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC: $3,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING TREE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEVELOPING FUTURES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM FOCUS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Mobile Preservation Society Inc: $55 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.

  • 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 Autism2Ability Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
  • Who funds Home of Grace For Women 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Prodisee Pantry 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.

Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…Crampton Trust #12550…The Daniel Foundation…J L Bedsole Foundatio…Alabama Power Foundat…The David J Cooper Fa…Julien E Marx Foundat…Cox Family Charitable…Mayer & Arlene Mitche…As Mitchell Foundatio…The Ben May Charitabl…The Joseph Treadwell …
Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze FoundationAL30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner 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 72 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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