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Cobb Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF FAIRHOPE | $20,216 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA SAMFORD THEATRE | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH | $9,067 |
| CHURCH STREET METHODIST CHURCH | $9,066 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $7,716 |
| STURDIVANT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| FAYETTE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $2,751 |
| FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK | $2,500 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,216 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FUND4× · 2020–2023 · $323k
- NANATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $240k
- FCFAYETTE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $40k
Funded once
- BBBIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2024 · $33k
- VCVAIL CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -1%
- VBVAIL BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
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.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
The charitable gift foundation is a public charity operating in affiliation with the community foundation of greater birmingham. the primary purpose of the foundation is to assist other charities with donation of real property and complex…
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
To provide free legal services to low-income citizens of jefferson county
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.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
The corporation operates a charitable food bank to meet the needs of children and others in the community and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission and the most unlike its peers is The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds VAIL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 BALDWIN COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation · Holle Family Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Better Place Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cobb Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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