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COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,136 to it, the largest being COBB EMC FOUNDATION INC ($90,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$392k
Net assets
$2.0M
9/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Cobb County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc does

Mission

The cobb county public schools educational foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing enhanced educational opportunities to students and educators in the cobb county school district by recognizing and rewarding excellence in teaching and learning, promoting innovative instruction through grants to teachers and schools, ensuring a successful educational environment, and providing an opportunity for the community to actively contribute to public education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Support of local school foundation funds for the direct benefit of the individual schools

    $362,982 spent
    44% of program spending

  2. $2,000 scholarships are awarded to two students from each cobb county high school who demonstrate involvement in extracurricular/community activities,leadership traits, and academic success. In addition, other amounts are awarded under various scholarship, family stabilization and grant programs.

    $155,308 spentof which $155,308 as grants
    19% of program spending

  3. Wellstar p'ship, learning interventions, volunteer of the year, and other program services expenses.

    $299,366 spent
    37% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $817,656.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($844k) Expenses 100 ($918k) Net assets 100 ($515k)2018 Revenue 83 ($702k) Expenses 62 ($569k) Net assets 105 ($540k)2019 Revenue 86 ($722k) Expenses 89 ($817k) Net assets 109 ($560k)2020 Revenue 104 ($875k) Expenses 76 ($698k) Net assets 146 ($750k)2021 Revenue 59 ($494k) Expenses 57 ($526k) Net assets 141 ($728k)2022 Revenue 65 ($550k) Expenses 50 ($456k) Net assets 154 ($791k)2023 Revenue 102 ($865k) Expenses 99 ($905k) Net assets 131 ($675k)2024 Revenue 182 ($1.5M) Expenses 107 ($984k) Net assets 254 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 182 ($1.5M) Expenses 91 ($832k) Net assets 383 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (182)Expenses (91)Net assets (383)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+51%).

$594k
$710k
$584k
$784k
$749k
$842k
$810k
$1.4M
$2.0M
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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

93% of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$74k
’17
$133k
’18
−$94k
’19
$177k
’20
−$32k
’21
$93k
’22
−$41k
’23
$550k
’24
$708k
’25
29
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

Felicia Wagner

Executive director - non v

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111718192019181918
Joined·+9+6+3+6+1+0+4+2
No longer listed·35252133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $19k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
'26*
total
Cobb Emc Foundation Incunclassified
$90k
Bright Funds Foundationunclassified
$12k
funders
2
3
4
7
4
5
6
7
4
1

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 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.

How concentrated its funding is

COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.

23%
largest funder
57%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 51% · 2019 58% · 2020 38% · 2021 54% · 2022 66% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

27% of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

77% of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

NY
MA
CT
CA
MO
VA
DE
GA
TX
FL

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

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’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve28.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL 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

Cobb Community Foundation Inc83%Cobb Emc Foundation Inc81%Cobb & Douglas Health Foundation Inc80%Columbia County School District Foundation Inc80%Learning Center Foundation of Central Cobb Inc80%Cobb County Youth Museum Inc80%Cherokee Co Educational Foundation79%Cobb County Fair Association Inc79%

Nationally

Cobb Community Foundation Inc83%Columbia County Public Schools Foundation Inc82%Collin County Community College District Foundation Inc82%Educational Foundation for Columbia Schools82%Cochise College Foundation81%Cobb Emc Foundation Inc81%The Columbia Education Foundation81%Colby Community College Endowment Foundation81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

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

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 SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL 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 SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,136 to it, the largest being COBB EMC FOUNDATION INC ($90,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $392,136 in grants to COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
COBB EMC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL 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.

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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 23 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing