· Private foundation
Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMS WRIGHT PREP SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| AIEF | $25,000 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE- DONOR-ADVISED-MERYL & MATTHEW FISHMAN | $20,000 |
| SCHWAB CARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUND-ABBY & CLIFF KENNEDY | $20,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARIABLE DONOR-ADVISED - LEAH & SAM OTHER | $20,000 |
| USA HEALTH | $6,000 |
| DIST YOUNG WOMEN OF AMERICA FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| MITCHELL CANCER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| DRUG EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| IMPACT 100 MOBILE | $1,100 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DEDrug Education Council Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +23%
- IMIMPACT100 MOBILE4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +26%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARKone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MAMOBILE AREA CHAMBER-SHELBY POINTEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SSSPECIAL SPECTATORS INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
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 present a forum for business and citizens where an exchange of ideas can occur that will make Mobile a better place to live, work and do business.
To promote scouting in the south alabama area
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
The Organization was formed to build, own and operate a Ronald McDonald House in Mobile, Alabama. The facility provides overnight lodging for children and their parents who travel long distances to Mobile area hospitals for various…
Community and economic development
None
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
The association is the professional real estate trade association in the mobile, alabama area. it was created to promote the local real estate industry and encourage high standards of conduct among real estate professionals.
The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.
To elevate the legal profession to the highest possible standards, regulate its practice, and provide continuing legal education to its members.
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 76 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUNICIPAL PARK ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF SPRING HILL INC ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 MOBILE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Lisa Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc · Dog Hill Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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