· Private foundation
The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE ROBERT AND JOANNA CUNNINGHAM 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKWOOD ADVENTIST ACADEMY | $70,742 |
| INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION | $62,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,995 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PRODISEE PANTRY | $10,000 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALTADENA ROTARY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| MOBILE SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| THE COOKERY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MOBILE | $5,000 |
| SATB2 GENE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MULHERIN HOME | $1,250 |
| HOME OF GRACE FOR WOMEN | $1,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- IGINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $238k · revenue +59%
- BABAYSIDE ACADEMY INC3× · 2021–2025 · $111k · revenue +36%
- TLTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION7× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- GCGULF COAST FAMILY CENTER OF MOBILEone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TFTHE FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Assistance to homeless and needy persons.
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
Promote stewardship of the marine environment.
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.
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.
Organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOKERY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds Altadena Rotary Charities ↗
- Who funds ARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SATB2 Gene Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Home of Grace For Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Our Sisters Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds MOBILE OPERA 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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mapp Family Foundation · The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc
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 Robert and Joanna Cunningham 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.
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% 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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