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Cobb Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
97
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.6MHealth$1.4MInternational$1.4MSocial Science$582kRecreation & Sports$570kReligion$555kPhilanthropy$516kPublic Benefit$411kOther$0
02FY2025 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k78 grants · $173k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $434k
  • $250k+1 grant · $675k
$2,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$674,933
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$142,000
PLYMOUTH CHURCH$86,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$76,000
CENTER FOR STATEGIC & INT'L STUDIES$75,000
WATERSIDE SCHOOL$55,000
THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION- FELLOWSHIP AT BUSH SCHOOL$35,000
JAMAICAN CHARITIES$31,515
ULI FOUNDATION (URBAN LAND INSTITUTE)$27,169
EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS$25,000
CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$20,000
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$15,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$15,000
PARTNERSHIP FUND$13,818
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LATINO ACTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%THE ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
NM
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 172 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

172 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

172
130

Total granted

$8.1M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+28%

Still filing today

44%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    7× · 2017–2025 · $819k · revenue +96%
  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $476k · revenue +102%
  • WS
    WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miami - Hurricane Club
    one grant, 2022 · $43k
  • AF
    American Friends of Jamaica / Allocation of Contribution
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • UO
    University of Miami - School of Music
    one grant, 2018 · $28k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Miami
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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
4
Americas Society Inc

Americas society is an educational forum which presents programs in its public policy and cultural affairs departments.

International
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
9
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

—
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in; the most unlike its peers is Cat Cay Medical Clinic Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

143 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. 143 of the 331 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/143
Grantees still filing
102/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Miami - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center: $643,500 · OtherUniversity of Miami - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer CenterCenter for Stategic & Int'l Studies: $326,000 · OtherCenter for Stategic & Int'l StudiesUniversity of Miami - The Ambassadors Sue and Charles Cobb Distinguished of Practice in Diplomacy: $300,500 · OtherUniversity of Miami - The Ambassadors Sue and Charles Cobb Disting…Stanford University - Hoover Institution: $300,000 · OtherStanford University - Hoover InstitutionUniversity of Miami - Cobb Stadium: $239,965 · OtherUnited Way of Dade County: $228,500 · OtherPlymouth Church:: $199,000 · OtherThe George and Barbara Bush Foundation- Fellowship at Bush School: $190,000 · OtherWoodrow Wilson Center for Scholars: $180,000 · Other+137 more: $2,685,217 · Other+137 moreUniversity of Miami: $818,638 · EducationUniversity of MiamiWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $292,869 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $271,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES O…THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $97,000 · EducationRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $91,300 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $70,000 · Education+10 more: $206,410 · Education+10 moreCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $400,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR…COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $265,307 · InternationalCOUNCIL OF…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY: $51,247 · InternationalAMERICAN A…ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING: $38,500 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $37,100 · International+8 more: $75,500 · International+8 moreBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $476,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $45,250 · Health+7 more: $27,165 · HealthCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $141,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $9,500 · PhilanthropyPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $25,120 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSPRING CREEK COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSO: $8,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $8,125 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF POLISH CULTURE INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $59,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB CORPORATION: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsTelluride Mountain Club: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,292,682Education$1,847,217International$867,654Health$548,415Philanthropy$250,500Arts & Culture$92,245Recreation & Sports$70,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $818,638 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $476,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $292,869 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $271,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $265,307 over 4y, 38% of budgetCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $141,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $97,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $91,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $59,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY: $51,247 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $45,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING: $38,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $37,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $25,120 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $21,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKirkwood Volunteer Fire Department: $13,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetOrphaned Starfish Foundation Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $8,650 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHEARING RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8,500 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetSPRING CREEK COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSO: $8,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $8,125 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBENCHMARK FOUNDATION OF TUBAC: $7,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetCENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB CORPORATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTelluride Historical Museum Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFARM SHARE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $6,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS ↗
  • Who funds CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗

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.

The Miami Foundation …The Batchelor Foundat…United Way Miami IncThe Kirk FoundationAnthony Abraham Found…Peacock Foundation IncDunspaugh Dalton Foun…Coral Gables Communit…Greater Miami Jewish …Mightycause Charitabl…Micky and Madeleine A…Publix Super Markets …
The Miami Foundation IncFL47.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Anthony Abraham Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation C/O Richard Kohan Afo LLC · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cobb Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cobb Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Farm Share Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Orange Bowl Committee Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 331 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home