· Private foundation
Cobb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ST MATTHIAS AUGUSTA ALTAR SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CARROLL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $2,500 |
| RYTHER LEAGUE | $2,450 |
| RYTHER | $2,450 |
| CHURCH OF INCARNATION | $2,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - NORTHERN | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MONTANA ST CHAPTER PEO | $2,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $2,000 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cobb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cobb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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