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Cobb Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$935k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
31
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$135,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 31
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Cobb Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$935k6%
FY202331$920k0%
FY202230$920k7%
FY202131$875k13%
FY202030$810k10%
FY201931$750kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.9MHealth$880kHuman Services$541kFood & Nutrition$465kReligion$138kArts & Culture$129kYouth Development$78kInternational$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
KY
DE
NC
SC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cobb Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWake Forest University: $925,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Snow Scholarship Fund Inc: $650,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetBoca Helping Hands Inc: $465,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Masonic Home for Children at Oxford Inc: $270,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSayre School: $240,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBucknell University: $177,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $157,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlice Lloyd College: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $112,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Church Episcopal School: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Latin Schools: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreenhouse17 Inc: $82,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLexington Philharmonic Society Inc: $82,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for Women Children and Families Inc: $79,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSpirit of Giving Network Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetParkinsons Unity Walk Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSalem Academy and College: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversal Aid for Children Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetCamperdown Academy Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAutism Charlotte: $45,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Door of Hope Pregnancy Center: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRight Moves for Youth Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetChrysalis House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC17.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Albemarle Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Cobb Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cobb Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Cobb Foundation Inc

How much does Cobb Foundation Inc give?
Cobb Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $935,056 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Cobb Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (17%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Cobb Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Wake Forest University ($925k), George Snow Scholarship Fund Inc ($650k), Boca Helping Hands Inc ($465k).
Does Cobb Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cobb Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cobb Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Cobb Foundation Inc based?
Cobb Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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