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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| LaGrange College | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Ferst Readers Inc | $4,000 |
| Point University | $4,000 |
| LAGRANGE ART MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Chattahochee Riverkeepers | $3,000 |
| Hillside Montessori of LaGrange Inc | $3,000 |
| WL-MAC McGrew Scholarship | $3,000 |
| Fuller Center | $2,000 |
| West Point United Methodist Church | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| First United Methodist Church | $1,000 |
| Harmony House | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- LALAGRANGE ART MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +59%
- HMHILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +196%
- FRFERST READERS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- WGWest GA Autsim Foundationone grant, 2019 · $4k
- WGWest GA Health Foundationone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Morehouse college is a historically black college whose mission is to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
To provide a superior education for prekindergarten through twelfth grade students in a safe, well-disciplined and nurturing environment. this mission has remained constant throughout the 50 plus year history of the school. founders…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dash for Lagrange Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Westville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 53 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 LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC ↗
- Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CHORAL SOCIETY OF WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WESTVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
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: 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
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 George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company 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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