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Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$566k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$60k
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 FY20202025.

Education$3.5MScience & Tech$30k
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $185k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$3,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA$54,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$48,000
VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY$48,000
GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY$30,000
TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE$27,000
MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED$24,000
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$24,000
YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE$21,000
MERCER UNIVERSITY$18,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$15,000
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$12,000
MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$9,000
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$9,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE$9,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $36k → 16%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $54k → 12%MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED: $48k → 13%YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $39k → 13%TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE: $28k → 14%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $67k → 15%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $98k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $73k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $23k → 24%GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $33k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $68k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $51k → 12%MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED: $29k → 13%YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $36k → 13%TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE: $27k → 14%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $48k → 15%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $83k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $59k → 23%GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $57k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $44k → 12%MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED: $27k → 13%TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE: $23k → 14%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $33k → 15%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $73k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $57k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $54k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $41k → 12%MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED: $26k → 13%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 15%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $60k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $39k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $50k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $36k → 12%MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED: $25k → 13%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 15%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $56k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $28k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $48k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $24k → 12%MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED: $24k → 13%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $48k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $38k → 27%GEORGIA TECH: $24k → 13%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

IL
MI
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 71 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
15

Total granted

$3.5M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+6%

Still filing today

37%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $268k · revenue +19%
  • TF
    Toccoa Falls College Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +20%
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHATTAHOOCHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2022 · $4k

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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
Coker University

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…

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
7
Eckerd College

The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Meredith College

Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spelman College and the most unlike its peers is Fort Valley State College National Alumni Association Inc. 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 80 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr9%9%35–55yr13%80%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr14%1%20–35yr9%3%35–55yr13%90%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,263

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 97 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY — $418,000 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA — $314,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIAVALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY — $223,500 · OtherVALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITYMOREHOUSE SCH OF MED — $179,000 · OtherMOREHOUSE SCH OF MEDKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY — $125,500 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $106,000 · OtherGEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY — $93,000 · Other+61 more — $896,000 · Other+61 moreTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $268,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIV…YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE — $147,000 · EducationYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGEToccoa Falls College Inc — $129,500 · EducationToccoa Falls College IncEMMANUEL COLLEGE — $90,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGEPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC — $39,000 · EducationREINHARDT UNIVERSITY — $37,500 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INC — $36,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $33,000 · Education+20 more — $167,000 · Education+20 more
Other$2,605,500Education$947,000

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 budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $268,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE — $147,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc — $129,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC — $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC — $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT UNIVERSITY INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaGrange College — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC — $3,000 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 THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE
  • Who funds Toccoa Falls College Inc
  • Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE
  • Who funds PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
  • Who funds Spelman College

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.

Watson-Brown Foundation IncGA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Georgia Independent College Association Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Churches Homes Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Rochfort Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

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 Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
  • Wheaton College0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College0% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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How do I get to Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua?

Find your warmest path to Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua 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 97 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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