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COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC

COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being WSG FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$110k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$410k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Cobb County Public Safety Foundation Inc does

Mission

The cobb county public safety foundation is a public charity that provides support to police officers, firefighters, deputy sheriffs, e911 officers, animal control, and emt's who serve cobb county. By serving first responders we aim to secure our community with the greatest safety and emergency resources available to all citizens.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization exists to promote and provide support for the cobb county public safety personnel in the form of funding, events, equipment and training in order to provide the community with the highest level of protection.

    $90,819 spentof which $82,776 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $90,819.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($9k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2020 Revenue 92 ($69k) Expenses 226 ($21k) Net assets 174 ($114k)2021 Revenue 206 ($154k) Expenses 234 ($21k) Net assets 375 ($247k)2022 Revenue 294 ($220k) Expenses 1434 ($131k) Net assets 511 ($337k)2023 Revenue 266 ($200k) Expenses 1022 ($93k) Net assets 673 ($443k)2024 Revenue 147 ($110k) Expenses 1570 ($143k) Net assets 622 ($410k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (147)Expenses (1570)Net assets (622)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $114k to $247k (+116%).

$66k
$114k
$247k
$337k
$443k
$410k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$66k
’19
$49k
’20
$133k
’21
$89k
’22
$107k
’23
−$33k
’24
1.7
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

Lance J Lorusso

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed131314
Joined·+0+5
No longer listed·04
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income held at $6k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
2
2
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $41k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cobb Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

How concentrated its funding is

COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 83% · 2023 83% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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

83% of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

SC
GA

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

’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 13%Fundraising 23%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

58%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC?
COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being WSG FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,000 in grants to COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC?
WSG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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