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George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company

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.

$87k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
4%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$87k8%
FY202325$125k4%
FY202224$63k8%
FY202124$74k13%
FY202025$90k16%
FY201926$74k27%
FY201824$70k33%
FY201725$78kn/a
78% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$143kReligion$44kArts & Culture$39kHuman Services$26kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$14kAnimals$12kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
LaGrange College$40,00070%
Point University Inc$34,00080%
Lagrange Art Museum Inc$23,00081%
Hillside Montessori of Lagrange Inc$13,00050%
Ferst Readers Inc$12,00030%
Mosa Fund$10,0008n/a
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc$9,00060%
Northside Methodist Church Inc$9,0008n/a
Choral Society of West Georgia Inc$7,00073%
Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc$5,00041%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
LaGrange College$40,00070%
Point University Inc$34,00080%
Lagrange Art Museum Inc$23,00081%
Hillside Montessori of Lagrange Inc$13,00050%
Ferst Readers Inc$12,00030%
Mosa Fund$10,0008n/a
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc$9,00060%
Northside Methodist Church Inc$9,0008n/a
Choral Society of West Georgia Inc$7,00073%
Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc$5,00041%
St Marks Episcopal Church$5,0001n/a
United Way of West Georgia Inc$5,00020%
Stratford Academy Inc$4,00040%
Pace Academy Inc$3,00030%
Historic Westville$2,57910%
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America$2,00020%
Washington and Lee University$2,00010%
Marietta Mentoring for Leadership Program$2,0001n/a
Buckhead Christian Ministry Inc$1,0001n/a
Dash for Lagrange Inc$1,00010%
Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Coweta Force Inc$1,00010%
The Westminster Schools Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($468k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLaGrange College: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPoint University Inc: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLagrange Art Museum Inc: $23,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHillside Montessori of Lagrange Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFerst Readers Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChoral Society of West Georgia Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetDaughters Against Alzheimer's Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of West Georgia Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStratford Academy Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPace Academy Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Westville: $2,579 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDash for Lagrange Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMerrie-Woode Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoweta Force Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 17.

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.

Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Charter Foundation Inc · The Ekkebus Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Emory University · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

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About George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company

How much does George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company give?
George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company reported 26 grants totaling $87,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Religion (7%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: LaGrange College ($40k), Point University Inc ($34k), Lagrange Art Museum Inc ($23k).
Does George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company 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 George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
Where is George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company based?
George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company is based in GA.

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 53 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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