Alabama · Private foundation
Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation
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.
- $567k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $552k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $639k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $553k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $458k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $381k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $310k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $415k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $509k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuscaloosa Academy | $750,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Elon University | $530,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Holy Innocents Episcopal School Inc | $145,000 | 7 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Agape Community Center | $130,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Peachtree Road Methodist Church | $102,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Birmingham Athletic Partnership | $100,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Connect Where Love Never Forgets Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 42% |
| Emory University | $85,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Nick's Kids Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($833k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The James I Harrison Family Foundation · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Ernest G & Cecil B Williams Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation
- How much does Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation give?
- Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $567,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Religion (10%), Health (8%).
- Who are Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Tuscaloosa Academy ($750k), Elon University ($530k), Holy Innocents Episcopal School Inc ($145k).
- Does Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation based?
- Robert & Mary Cobb Family Foundation is based in AL.
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