· Private foundation
The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE DAVID J COOPER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $508k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION | $600,000 |
| MAMGA - NINETEEN THIRTY EIGHT LEGACY | $150,000 |
| DAUPHIN RESTORATIN SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| MAMGA NINETEEN THIRTY EIGH | $100,000 |
| THE UNIV OF ALABAMA | $58,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| MOBILE BIG BAND SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA CULVERHOUSE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $27,000 |
| VISION CASHIERS | $25,000 |
| MADISON RIDGELAND ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MOBILE CARNIVAL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND CASHIERS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INFIRMARY FDN | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 19 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k 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
- MCMOBILE CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +56%
- HRHISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $388k · revenue +24% · 34% of their budget
- UCUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $141k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- DSDAUPHIN STREET RESTORATION SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA CULVERHOUSEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $35k
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 further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
Restore & maintain historic building(s) in mobile alabama.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
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.
Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center
The 1857 foundation is organized for the purpose of preserving the historic or architectural character of the mobile, alabama community through the acquisition and restoration of historically or architecturally significant properties,…
Community and economic development
Provide facilities and support for the alabama high school of mathematics and science
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Restoration Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society of 1842. 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 50 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 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 106 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 CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mamga Nineteen Thirty Eight Legacy ↗
- Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA MARDI GRAS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PHI MU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INFIRMARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON-RIDGELAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BIG BAND SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF 1842 ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
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 · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · The Ee Delaney Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Cox Family Charitable Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn
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 The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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