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The Cobos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$133kHuman Services$75kEducation$64kFood & Nutrition$43kArts & Culture$41kHousing & Shelter$32kEmployment$19kHealth$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,700
Median grant
7
States reached
$783k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THREE SQUARE$10,000
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN$5,000
THE HANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHERN NEVADA$5,000
SHADE TREE$4,200
NY TIMES COMMUNITY FUND$4,000
FORDHAM OF LONG ISLAND$3,700
ABOVE AND BEYOND FOUNDATION$3,000
SARASOTA OPERA HOUSE$3,000
HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE$2,500
LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION$2,500
SAINT JOSEPH HUSBAND OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,500
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 10%WOMENS FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $300 → 12%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 13%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $3k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $900 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
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CA
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CO
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$425k · 24 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$425k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+13%

Still filing today

46%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AG
    ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +110%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +51%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada
    3× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • MM
    MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN SKI PATROL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • BV
    BRAVO VAIL
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • VF
    VVMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Vail Valley Foundation

Vail valley foundation was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.

Community Improvement
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
4
Healthy Nevada
Health
5
Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
6
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
7
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

9
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
10
Park City Community Foundation

We bring together caring donors, expert nonprofits, and community leaders to contribute financial resources and innovative ideas to benefit all the people of park city - now and into the future. we care for and invest in the people, place,…

Philanthropy
11
Hunger Free Vermont Inc

To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.

Crime & Legal
12
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fairweather Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $52,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHERN NEVADA — $45,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHERN NEVADAHARLEM CHILDREN ZONE — $30,000 · OtherHARLEM CHILDREN ZONETHE SHADE TREE INC — $29,700 · OtherTHE SHADE TREE INCNY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES — $20,000 · OtherNY TIMES NEEDIEST CASESNY TIMES COMMUNITY FUND — $14,000 · OtherFORDHAM OF LONG ISLAND — $12,000 · OtherSHERPA FOUNDATION — $11,500 · OtherVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $9,550 · Other+22 more — $40,506 · Other+22 moreALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL — $44,500 · InternationalALL GOD'S C…+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalTHREE SQUARE — $42,500 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUA…Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $15,500 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $2,500 · Human Services+3 more — $2,200 · Human ServicesPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $30,000 · EducationTHE ABOVE AND BEYOND FOUNDATION — $18,500 · PhilanthropyROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$264,756International$45,500Food & Nutrition$42,500Human Services$32,700Education$30,000Philanthropy$18,500Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL — $44,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC — $29,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ABOVE AND BEYOND FOUNDATION — $18,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $9,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT — $3,970 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL CHAMPIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC
  • Who funds THE ABOVE AND BEYOND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada
  • Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC
  • Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
  • Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION
  • Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT
  • Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds FAIRWEATHER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SMALL CHAMPIONS INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Cobos Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Cobos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cobos Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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