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Woman's Missionary Union Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention

Birmingham, AL · EIN 63-0302185. Reported 39 grants totalling $765,734 to 23 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$765,734granted, 2020-2024
24%of grantees funded again the next year
18%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Woman's Missionary Union Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in religion -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE X110).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 24% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $23,000; the smallest was $5,770 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Send Relief IncAlpharetta, GA$140,460322024
NeodoxaWeston, FL$89,319332023
International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist ConventionRichmond, VA$82,085652024
The Orchard ChurchKingsley, MI$65,100332024
First Baptist Church Trussville AlTrussville, AL$57,045112024
Brewster Road Community ChurchIrondale, AL$55,000222024
Second Chance Global MinistriesPhiladelphia, PA$47,300112020
Gila Valley Baptist AssociationCASA Grande, AZ$30,000112020
Citi Impact MinistriesDavidson, NC$27,500222021
Live Love Ministries IncStanfield, AZ$25,000222024
One More Child IncLakeland, FL$20,500222023
African Childrens Mission IncBirmingham, AL$16,500222021
Lifeline Childrens Services IncBirmingham, AL$16,300112020
First Baptist Church JacksonJackson, MS$14,000112021
Fbc RunneistownPetal, MS$11,000112020
West Oxford Baptist ChurchOxford, NC$11,000112020
North Carolina Baptist MenCary, NC$10,000112024
Wmu of TexasDallas, TX$10,000112020
Gcpn Global Connection PartnershipnetworkArlington, TX$9,355112020
First Baptist Church of JonesboroJonesboro, GA$8,500112022
Missouri Baptist ConventionJefferson Cty, MO$8,000112020
One Church Inc (camerio)Comerio, PR$6,000112020
Living Spring FellowshipFederal Way, WA$5,770112021

9 of 23 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 7 of 23 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Religion
7 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202017$306,045$13,500
20216$64,180$10,750
20224$60,685$15,042
20234$61,779$12,500
20248$273,045$26,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

19% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Georgia
$149K
Alabama
$145K
Florida
$110K
Virginia
$82K
Michigan
$65K
Arizona
$55K
North Carolina
$48K
Pennsylvania
$47K

Down to the city

Alpharetta, GA
$140K
Weston, FL
$89K
Richmond, VA
$82K
Kingsley, MI
$65K
Trussville, AL
$57K
Irondale, AL
$55K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Woman's Missionary Union Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 100 Missionary Ridge, Birmingham, AL, 35242.

EIN 63-0302185 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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