· Private foundation
Cobb Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF FAIRHOPE | $20,216 |
| VIRGINIA SAMFORD THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH | $9,067 |
| CHURCH STREET METHODIST CHURCH | $9,066 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $7,716 |
| STURDIVANT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- VBVAIL BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $7k
- VCVAIL CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -1%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cobb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cobb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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