· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MOBILE BIG BAND SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA CULVERHOUSE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $27,000 |
| MADISON RIDGELAND ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| VISION CASHIERS | $25,000 |
| MOBILE CARNIVAL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| HIGHLAND CASHIERS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
| INFIRMARY FDN | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF 1842 ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David J Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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