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The Steven & Susan Cobin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Steven & Susan Cobin Family 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$143kInternational$142kEducation$134kHealth$123kYouth Development$21kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$11kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOMENTUM (WHEELS FOR HUMANITY)$10,000
RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP$10,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE THE MISSION$2,275
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $25k → 10%THE ELI HOUSE: $2k → 10%HARVEST HOME: $5k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%HOPE THE MISSION: $2k → 14%RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of The Steven & Susan Cobin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 40%.

The Steven & Susan Cobin Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$364k · 12 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$364k
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+6%

Still filing today

58%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 ServicesHealthEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MW
    MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +113%
  • TA
    THINSPACE AFRICA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +388%
  • HT
    HOPE THE MISSION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • BH
    BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • TA
    TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
  • RM
    RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
2
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
3
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
4
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
5
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
6
Healthright 360

To give hope and change lives. we do this by offering a continuum of prevention, intervention, behavioral health and wellness services to adults and families throughout california. these services aim to reduce costs of societal problems by…

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7
The Midnight Mission

The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…

Human Services
8
Bonita House Inc

To empower people living with mental health and co-occurring substance use challenges to achieve recovery, self-sufficiency, and deeply connected, meaningful lives within their communities.we do this by: delivering culturally responsive…

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9
Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
10
Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc

Our mission is to support children/youth, and their families, in and at-risk of foster care, to build hope and achieve bright futures through wellness, education, relationships, and career focused services and resources.

Health
11
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
12
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Thinspace Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY: $110,000 · OtherBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILYSPARKSHOP: $104,000 · OtherSPARKSHOPTEMPLE JUDEA: $32,500 · OtherTEMPLE JUDEAPARENTS IN PARTNERSHIP (FOR VALLEY INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL): $21,000 · OtherPARENTS IN PARTNERSHIP (FOR VALLEY INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY…POPS THE CLUB (PAIN OF THE PRISON SYSTEM): $14,500 · OtherPLAY IT FORWARD: $14,000 · Other+6 more: $22,500 · Other+6 moreMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY: $85,000 · HealthMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITYOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $43,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTERTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · HealthTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERIC…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSI…HOPE THE MISSION: $22,275 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MIS…RIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $10,000 · Human ServicesRIDE ON LA R…Harvest Home Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesHarvest Home…+2 more: $4,000 · Human Services+2 moreTHINSPACE AFRICA: $26,600 · InternationalEMBRACE UGANDA: $5,000 · InternationalHarmony Project: $11,000 · EducationGIRLS 4 SCIENCE: $500 · Education826CHI INC: $500 · EducationGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyXS Tennis and Education Foundation: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$318,500Health$161,000Human Services$66,275International$31,600Education$12,000Philanthropy$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $43,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $22,275 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony Project: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Opportunity Inc: $6,150 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHarvest Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMBRACE UGANDA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ELI HOME INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXS Tennis and Education Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS 4 SCIENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Steven & Susan Cobin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steven & Susan Cobin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Steven & Susan Cobin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Steven & Susan Cobin Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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