· Private foundation
Mary J Larkins Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| MOBILE SYMPHONY INC | $20,000 |
| RAPAHOPE CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZEN'S SERVICES | $7,000 |
| GULF COAST ETHNIC AND HERITAGE JAZZ FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| MOBILE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC | $5,000 |
| CASA MOBILE INC | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE LIVING ARTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- MSMobile Symphony Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +38%
- DWDUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2019–2023 · $72k · revenue +60%
- MMMOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- MBMOBILE BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- ARANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -72%
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.
Mobile Arts Councils mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Mobile area through increasing accessibility to the arts and promoting a vibrant cultural community.
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…
To cultivate the arts in Jefferson County and the State of Alabama.
Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications
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 coordinate and to encourage cultural endeavors and to promote knowledge and appreciation of the arts and humanities in southeast alabama.
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.
Aquisition and care for homeless and abused animals prevention of cruelty to animals through education
None
Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.
Humane treatment of animals-the mission is to provide compassionate care, shelter, food and medical attention to the animals entrusted to us while promoting adoptions, spay and neuter initiatives, responsible pet ownership and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mobile County Pals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR THE LIVING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Mobile County Pals ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile International Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE A STRAY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEDICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CASA MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BOTANICAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Catranis Family Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc · The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc · Mapp Family 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 Mary J Larkins Charitable 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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