California · Nonprofit
Cobb Institute
Cobb Institute (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,568 to it, the largest being THE HOWDY DOODY GOOD TIMES FOUNDATION INC ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Cobb Institute does
Mission
The Cobb Institute promotes process and relational ways of understanding and living in the world, seeking to cultivate ecological civilizations through just and compassionate communities. Our aims are accomplished by fostering creative transformation through holistic education, community building, and spiritual discovery.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, we continued to advanced our mission by expanding our efforts in each of our three main areas of focus: holistic education, community building, and spiritual discovery. We completed another successful round of our certificate program in process thought and practice with 15 graduates, developed several new course offerings, and hosted numerous learning circles and pop-up events. Participation in our cohorts and engagement with our online communities grew significantly, and we collaborated with local leaders and organizations in the Pomona area on public benefit initiatives. We also continued our work with Process & Faith, co-sponsored offerings with other interfaith organizations, and hosted a variety of events devoted to relational forms of spirituality.
$80,023 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,023.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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 $22k to $110k (+403%).
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.
86% of Cobb Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Mary Elizabeth Moore
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $700 → $25.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Institute’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 Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
Cobb Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Cobb Institute has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Cobb Institute
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cobb Institute: 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 Institute?
- Cobb Institute (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,568 to it, the largest being THE HOWDY DOODY GOOD TIMES FOUNDATION INC ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cobb Institute have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $252,568 in grants to Cobb Institute, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cobb Institute?
- THE HOWDY DOODY GOOD TIMES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cobb Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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