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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of JOY M & JAMES GRODNICK CHARITABLE FOUNDA TION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
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
- 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
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 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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community of Mobile Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Palmer Williams Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 76 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 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 GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
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: 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
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 Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion 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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