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WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being MILITARY STABILITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$462k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$924k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Wiregrass Economic Development Corporation does

Mission

To promote commercial and industrial growth and prosperity for the city of enterprise, coffee county and geneva county, alabama. The board will pursue a program which includes, but is not limited to: (1) establish and maintain a support and retention program for existing business and industry; (2) work to maintain a high per capita income and create jobs that pay above the average wage rates for southeast alabama; (3) recruit new manufacturing and service sector jobs for our market area; (4) work to increase retail sales within our trade area on an annual basis; and, all other areas deemed necessary to promote economic development in southeast alabama.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Business and industry recruitment

    $107,844 spent
    32% of program spending
  2. Business retention and support

    $233,835 spent
    68% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $341,679.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($299k) Expenses 100 ($256k) Net assets 100 ($611k)2018 Revenue 169 ($505k) Expenses 128 ($328k) Net assets 129 ($788k)2019 Revenue 186 ($558k) Expenses 210 ($537k) Net assets 126 ($769k)2020 Revenue 171 ($513k) Expenses 158 ($403k) Net assets 144 ($878k)2021 Revenue 160 ($480k) Expenses 150 ($384k) Net assets 159 ($974k)2022 Revenue 149 ($445k) Expenses 166 ($423k) Net assets 163 ($996k)2023 Revenue 126 ($377k) Expenses 178 ($456k) Net assets 150 ($917k)2024 Revenue 154 ($462k) Expenses 178 ($455k) Net assets 151 ($924k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (178)Net assets (151)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $620k to $803k (+29%).

$620k
$803k
$808k
$894k
$988k
$1.0M
$931k
$955k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 35% · 2019 29% · 2020 40% · 2021 50% · 2022 43% · 2023 51% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$177k
’18
$20k
’19
$110k
’20
$96k
’21
$22k
’22
−$79k
’23
$7k
’24
17
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Jesse Quillen

Executive director

Board chair

John L Mitchell Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2525252527282828
Joined·+3+4+1+8+6+8+5
No longer listed·3416585
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being MILITARY STABILITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
MILITARY STABILITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WIREGRASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing