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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUSCALOOSA ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AGAPE YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $50,000 |
| CONNECT WHERE LOVE NEVER FORGETS | $45,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| PEACHTREE ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $15,000 |
| DCH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $25k) 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 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- TATUSCALOOSA ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $750k · revenue +97%
Elon University8× · 2018–2025 · $530k · revenue +42%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TWThe William Breman Jewish Home Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +8%
- NANATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CWCONNECT WHERE LOVE NEVER ENDSone grant, 2023 · $45k
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.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The mission of Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation (The Foundation) is to support the activities and mission of the Hospital (CHA).
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
To feed the needy
The mission of the alabama casa network, inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metro Animal Shelter. 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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 57 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 TUSCALOOSA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds The Birmingham Athletic Partnership ↗
- Who funds CONNECT WHERE LOVE NEVER FORGETS INC ↗
- Who funds NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST AL ↗
- Who funds The William Breman Jewish Home Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds DCH Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF 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: 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
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 Robert & Mary Cobb Family 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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