· Public charity
Cobb Emc Foundation Inc
To carefully assess the financial requests of charitable organizations, and to apply our collective wisdom to the allocation of available funds for the broadest benefit of the community and the members we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $879,529 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,217,677 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $338,148 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $514k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WONDERFUL DAYS PRESCHOOL INC | $50,000 |
| GALE FORCE EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| THE EXTENSION INC | $50,000 |
| MUST MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| UCC XV INC - LAURELS EDGE | $49,319 |
| SWEETWATER MISSION INC | $29,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS DEVELOPMENT GROUP | $25,000 |
| GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| TOMMY NOBIS CENTER | $25,000 |
| CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME | $25,000 |
| BETHESDA COMM CLINIC | $24,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CTR OF COBB | $20,000 |
| KOS INC | $18,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- MMMust Ministries Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $219k · revenue +139%
- DDDAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $196k · revenue +14%
- GVGOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $161k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- COCarelink of Northwest Georgia Incone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -12%
- BHBUILDING HOPE COMMUNITIES INCone grant, 2019 · $18k
- DDDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $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.
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
Support and sponsor those experiencing hopelessness and homelessness, through residential rehabilitation, recovery and treatment programs, Christian-based spiritual mentopring and counseling, life skills training and resources infused with…
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 organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
The Carroll County Child Advocacy Center exists to champion the needs of sexually, physically, and emotionally abused children in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties through prevention, intervention and collaboration.
Dougherty County CASA, Inc. supports children who have experienced abuse or neglect by providing specially trained community volunteers to advocate for their best interests -- promoting their safety, stability, and permanent connections to…
The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Next Step Ministries, Inc. serves families in Cherokee, Cobb and Fulton counties of Georgia by providing therapeutic day programs for individuals with special needs in a Christian environment.
To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.
Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kos Inc. 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 18 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 135 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 Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TOMMY NOBIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA COBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LiveSafe Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF COBB INC ↗
- Who funds The Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds SafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SER FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds Beyond Limits Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Transplant Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE AMERICAN YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMMYS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KIDS CUBED INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Family Resources ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds POWER OF PEACE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTIONS OF TRINITY INC ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UCC XV Inc ↗
- Who funds Foster4Love Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADULT DISABILITY MEDICAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS MINISTRIES INC fka PAPAS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Four Corners Group Inc ↗
- Who funds COBB ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds Blue Thanksgiving Inc ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds WONDERFUL DAYS PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds Vision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: Cobb Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Greystone Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Atlanta Braves Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Wellstar Health System Inc · 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 Emc 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.
- Federation for Children Wspecial Needs — 10% 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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