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Every IRS Form 990, sorted for the funder you haven’t heard of yet, and the grantee you should call today.
We read every IRS Form 990 filed in the country and surface the handful of Gleanings each week that change who you should call. New foundations coming online before they’ve written their first check. Grantees whose runway just compressed. Out-of-state funders quietly expanding into your state. With the receipts attached.
Two readers. Same filings. Different reads.
We don’t write to “nonprofit professionals” as a category. The digest is built for the development office building a prospect pipeline, and the foundation officer watching grantees. Every Gleaning lands meaningfully for both — usually for different reasons.
Rachel
Haplotace just got capitalized with $560M and hasn’t written a check yet. I have eighteen months to be on their radar before they start. The first development office through the door wins.
David
Spring Hill is running a 150% expense ratio and Alabama Partnership for Children has 1.2 months of runway. Two of my grantees. I’d rather call the EDs before the next board meeting, not after.
One Gleaning, complete as published.
A digest contains a handful of these. Each is self-contained — no teasing, no paywall on the payoff.
Wiregrass Foundation — a recurring $1M grant, hidden in a small-grant funder
Fact. The Wiregrass Foundation, in Dothan, Alabama, has directed $21.3M across 604 grants to Alabama organizations — a high-volume funder whose typical grant runs under $7,000.
Signal. Against that pattern of small, frequent checks, one line keeps recurring in its filings: $1,000,000 to the City of Dothan for the “Wiregrass Public Safety Center” — in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2024, plus $500,000 in 2025. A single civic project drawing roughly $5.5M from a funder whose median grant is $6,862.
Relevance. For an Alabama grant writer, Wiregrass reads as a broadly accessible in-state funder — 604 grants at a sub-$7K median — that will also concentrate major, sustained capital on a local priority. That pattern is only visible if you read the whole filing history. That’s the work gleantree does.
Three commitments, regardless of which domain you read.
Every Gleaning traces to a primary record.
No second-hand reporting. No synthesis without a source. Every name, date, and dollar amount comes from a public record we can show you.
No teasing. Each Gleaning is whole.
Each Gleaning is complete as published — the finding is right there in the digest, never gated or held back to make you click. You shouldn’t have to click through to find out what we mean.
We ship when the signal warrants it.
A thin issue beats a padded one. Some weeks the record doesn’t surface anything worth your time — when that happens, we say so, and we email either way.