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COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,176,917 to it, the largest being William M Harris Family Foundation ($7,200,562). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year. COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2025
$9.7M
Funders on record
46
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$29M
24/46 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$22M

Recipients

302

Contributions on record

$10M

Donors on record

47

Payments out run 2.1x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 85 ($1.4M) Net assets 124 ($7.7M)2019 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 86 ($1.5M) Net assets 171 ($11M)2020 Revenue 73 ($2.5M) Expenses 144 ($2.4M) Net assets 179 ($11M)2021 Revenue 105 ($3.6M) Expenses 166 ($2.8M) Net assets 206 ($13M)2022 Revenue 150 ($5.1M) Expenses 149 ($2.5M) Net assets 213 ($13M)2023 Revenue 151 ($5.2M) Expenses 323 ($5.5M) Net assets 220 ($14M)2024 Revenue 516 ($18M) Expenses 427 ($7.3M) Net assets 402 ($25M)2025 Revenue 282 ($9.7M) Expenses 464 ($7.9M) Net assets 459 ($29M)
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Revenue (282)Expenses (464)Net assets (459)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $25M to $34M (+38%).

$8.8M
$10M
$14M
$15M
$18M
$23M
$25M
$34M
$39M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
$2.0M
’18
$2.0M
’19
$41k
’20
$758k
’21
$2.6M
’22
−$337k
’23
$10M
’24
$1.7M
’25
0.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Shari Martin

President & CEO

Board chair

Chris K Gruehn

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+10+3+5+9+5+7+5+10
No longer listed·110275459
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $168k → $155k.

14 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $315k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

NY
CT
MO
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

64%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,176,917 to it, the largest being William M Harris Family Foundation ($7,200,562). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year. COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $10,176,917 in grants to COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
William M Harris Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,200,562 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing