· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ALTADENA ROTARY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| DUMAS WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $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 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $1,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (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 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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +90%
Funded once
- GCGULF COAST FAMILY CENTER OF MOBILEone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TFTHE FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 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 Altadena Rotary Charities ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds ARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER 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 ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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