Woman's Missionary Union Foundation
Birmingham, AL · EIN 63-1138772. Reported 131 grants totalling $5,228,460 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Woman's Missionary Union Foundation, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P58) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 65% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,128. Half of what it reported fell between $5,819 and $12,578; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $1,018,722. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Womans Missionary Union Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention | Birmingham, AL | $3,386,588 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Iglesia Bautista De Centerpoint | Pinson, AL | $442,919 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tennessee Baptist Mission Board | Franklin, TN | $153,183 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention | Richmond, VA | $145,920 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $50,789 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $49,769 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue Mountain Christian University | Blue Mountain, MS | $46,953 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| California Baptist University | Riverside, CA | $40,861 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Illinois Baptist State Association | Springfield, IL | $38,512 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Baptist Convention Board | Jackson, MS | $38,225 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baylor University | Waco, TX | $38,109 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Missouri Women's Missionary Union | Jefferson City, MO | $32,627 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas Woman's Missionary Union | Dallas, TX | $32,430 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Woman's Missionary Union | Little Rock, AR | $32,185 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Turlac Mission Beyond the Vineyards | Hoover, AL | $30,816 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Global Maritime Ministries Inc | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spiritual Care Link Foundation | Scottsdale, AZ | $29,783 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Womans Missionary Union Auxiliary to S C Baptist Convention | Columbia, SC | $29,705 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baptist Convention of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $28,507 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kentucky Womans Missionary Union Inc | Louisville, KY | $28,411 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Anchored in Christ Ministries | Slidell, LA | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kentucky Baptist Convention | Louisville, KY | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alaska Baptist Convention Inc | Anchorage, AK | $26,518 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alabama Womans Missionary Union | Prattville, AL | $26,305 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| West Virginia Convention-of Southern Baptists | Scott Depot, WV | $25,873 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church Jackson | Jackson, MS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Womans Missionary Union of North Carolina | Cary, NC | $23,158 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baptist Women's Missionary Union of Georgia | Duluth, GA | $21,080 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church Pembroke | Pembroke, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Campbellsville University Inc | Campbellsville, KY | $19,753 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baptist General Convention of the State of Oklahoma | Oklahoma City, OK | $19,672 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | Wake Forest, NC | $18,285 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Florida Baptist Convention | Jacksonville, FL | $16,406 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| State Convention of Baptists in Indiana Incorporated | Laurel, IN | $16,245 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cornerstone Church of Ames Iowa | Ames, IA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mill City Baptist Church | Mill City, OR | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $13,483 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Greenville University | Tigerville, SC | $11,051 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention | Honolulu, HI | $10,523 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bethel Metropolitian Baptist Church | Lake Charles, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dakota Southern Baptist Fellowship | Rapid City, SD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northbrook Church | Threeway, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baptist World Alliance | Falls Church, VA | $9,036 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Minnesota Wisconsin Baptist Convention | Rochester, MN | $8,743 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womans Missionary Union Foundation | Birmingham, AL | $8,111 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gulf Coast Christian Womens Job Corps-Magdalene House | Diamondhead, MS | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Wellhouse | Odenville, AL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Liberty University | Lynchburg, VA | $7,344 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baptist Convention of New York | Cicero, NY | $7,110 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Louisiana Baptist Convention Executive Board | Alexandria, LA | $6,522 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blanket Fort Hope | Columbiana, AL | $5,816 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary | New Orleans, LA | $5,324 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| William Carey University | Hattiesburg, MS | $5,288 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union University | Jackson, TN | $5,022 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alabama Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | Birmingham, AL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baptist State Convention of Michigan | Plymouth, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gideons International | Nashville, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grady County Baptist Association | Cairo, GA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Serving You Ministries Inc | Birmingham, AL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
30 of 60 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Woman's Missionary Union
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION & MINISTRIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $1,200,079 | $8,889 |
| 2022 | 34 | $1,474,989 | $8,353 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,403,677 | $7,397 |
| 2024 | 32 | $1,149,715 | $8,141 |
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
75% of its giving went to organizations in Alabama. 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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,128 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alabama.
- 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 Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 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.
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