Montana · Private foundation
Cobb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $84k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Cobb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $84k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $70k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $70k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $93k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $92k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $76k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $84k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $76k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Montana Foundation | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Carroll College | $23,500 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Providence | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Christ Church Episcopal | $19,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation | $18,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Flathead Valley Community College | $16,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Pregnancy Resource Center Inc | $14,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain College | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Garden School | $11,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Ryther Child Center League | $11,300 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($345k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cobb Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Cobb Foundation
- How much does Cobb Foundation give?
- Cobb Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $84,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cobb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Religion (17%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Cobb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Montana Foundation ($63k), Carroll College ($24k), University of Providence ($19k).
- Does Cobb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cobb Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cobb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, Town Pump Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Cobb Foundation based?
- Cobb Foundation is based in MT.
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