· Private foundation
The Helen C Cobbs 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $232k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $43,925 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $37,650 |
| ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES (RAM HOUSE) | $18,825 |
| CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (CHIP) | $18,825 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $18,825 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC | $18,825 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION | $12,550 |
| SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA SALEM MUSEUM | $12,550 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROANOKE | $12,550 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC | $12,550 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC | $12,550 |
| WEST END CENTER | $12,550 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $9,412 |
| SALEM AREA ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES | $6,275 |
| BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,138 |
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, $805k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $333k · revenue +179%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +30%
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BFBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
- RARenovation Alliance Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +102%
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.
To serve the indigent.
The mission of roane family health care is to exceed the quality of care that our patients deserve and expect while surpassing community needs through innovative technology.
We aim to develop quality soccer players, as well as well-balanced, motivated individuals who are prepared to handle life's challenges. Our programs are designed to enhance each player's personal growth.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The center provides religious, educational, and charitable services including distributing clothing, refreshments, toys, gifts and religious instruction to the homeless and low income citizens of the community.
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
Combat poverty by focusing on increasing self-sufficiency of low-income citizens.
Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.
The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.
Primary mission is to extend the facilities and services of rw-c inc. to aid as many deserving individuals as can prudently be supported with the funds available to the foundation.
To provide for the basic medical and dental needs of the working poor of Rockingham County through volunteer medical professionals.
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROANOKE ↗
- Who funds West End Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Salem Area Ecumenical Ministries ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Renovation Alliance Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · Carilion Medical Center · Roanoke Womens Foundation · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · Evelyn F James Foundation · Powell Charitable Foundation · The Newbern Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Helen C Cobbs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen C Cobbs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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