· Private foundation
Vivian & Ernest Cory 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 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 $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY COUNSELING INC | $20,000 |
| TUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA TOCQUEVILLE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BROTHER BRYAN MISSION | $10,000 |
| ALL CHRIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIREHOUSE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +62%
- NKNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +58%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC4× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $40k
- COCHURCH OF HIGHLANDSone grant, 2018 · $5k
- WBWill Bright Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +181%
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 samaritan couseling center, inc. provides mental health services, educational programming and consultive services to all in need in the river region and community through a wellness-oriented philosophy emphasizing mind, body, spirit…
The refuge foundation is a grant making organization that supports non-denominational christian retreat centers committed to the practice of silence, solitude and simplicity in a natural setting of god's creation where the participant…
Christian based counseling services.
Trinity communications group, inc exists to spread the gospel of jesus christ through concerts and live events
Outreach ministries of alabama, inc. provides residential discipleship programs for young adults with life controlling problems.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
To minister to hurting people and help them discover the unresolved issues in their life, and let god resolve them. to provide resources to train and equip men and women to continue their walk with the lord and enable them to reach their…
The ministry is a not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the state of alabama as a ministry whose purpose is to offer christ-centered counseling for children, youth, adults, and families.
To provide faith-based recovery assistance and education to men and women dealing with substance addiction
Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…
As an arm of the church, we point people bound by addiction to god's unbound grace through counseling, discipleship and community.
The Narramore Christian Foundation (NCF) provides Christ-centered training and counseling for pastors, organization leaders, missionaries and their children, member care providers, and other Kingdom workers. NCF is a global ministry…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vivian & Ernest Cory Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vivian & Ernest Cory Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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