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Cobb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ST MATTHIAS AUGUSTA ALTAR SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CARROLL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $2,500 |
| TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH | $2,500 |
| RYTHER LEAGUE | $2,450 |
| RYTHER | $2,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - NORTHERN | $2,000 |
| MONTANA ST CHAPTER PEO | $2,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $2,000 |
| MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHURCH OF INCARNATION | $2,000 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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 +55% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CCCARROLL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +3%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +12%
- MSMONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- MPMaris Placegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +80%
- MSMT ST CHAPTER PEOone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
For more than four decades, haven has been bozemans trusted community partner in providing safe shelter, support (including a 24-hour support line and legal advocacy), and counseling for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex…
Our mission is to build healthier communities by providing high-quality primary care that integrates physical and behavioral health while removing barriers to wellness.
To provide emergency shelter
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Watson children's shelter is dedicated to providing a safe, nurturing, environment for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment or family crisis.
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Center and the most unlike its peers is Gods Love Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 106 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Garden School ↗
- Who funds RYTHER CHILD CENTER LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds MARBLE RETREAT ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Treacy Foundation · Bayne Foundation Inc · Broussard Charitable Foundation Tr · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation
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 Foundation 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.
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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