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Cobb Community Foundation Inc
Cobb community foundation's mission is to be a catalyst for a thriving community by mobilizing people, ideas, and resources to improve the quality of life in and around cobb.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 130 grants below total $5,388,535 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,207,173 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $818,638 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k87 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH METRO CHURCH | $520,000 |
| LIFE UNIVERSITY INC | $303,000 |
| SER FAMILIA INC | $250,284 |
| OAKS MINISTRIES INC | $150,000 |
| PIEDMONT CHURCH | $150,000 |
| MILFORD BAPTIST CHURCH | $150,000 |
| OPEN BIBLE TABERNACLE INC DBA LIVING STONE CHURCH | $139,000 |
| COBB LANDMARKS AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $137,500 |
| LIFEPOINT CHURCH | $129,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC | $118,819 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNSELING CENTERS | $111,957 |
| ATLANTA INNER-CITY MINISTRY INC | $100,000 |
| REFLECTIONS OF TRINITY INC | $93,176 |
| MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL | $86,989 |
| GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC | $85,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 52 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- GAGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +59%
- KSKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $551k · revenue +67%
- CLCOBB LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $503k · revenue +35% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- HEHEBRON EDUCATIONAL MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $200k
- COCITY OF HOPEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- MBMILFORD BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $75k
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.
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
To support the cobb county chamber of commerce, inc. in accomplishing community development in the cobb county, georgia area.
Cvc of atlanta encourages corporate members to develop excellence in corporate volunteerism. develop programs and provide resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Marietta Daily Journal Community Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
184 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. 184 of the 293 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COBB LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEFF BOYNTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SER FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Paran Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC ↗
- Who funds The Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds OAKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLES COBB INC ↗
- Who funds The Walker School Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTIONS OF TRINITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Family Resources ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS ↗
- Who funds Marietta Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EMBRYO ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LiveSafe Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLSTAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Four Corners Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNSELING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARIETTA KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA COBB MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
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: Cobb Emc Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atlanta Braves Foundation · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tuw Thomas H Pitts
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 Cobb Community 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.
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.