Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COBYS FAMILY SERVICES
COBYS FAMILY SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,055 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($528,989). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Cobys Family Services does
Mission
Motivated by christian faith, Cobys Family Services educates, supports, and empowers children and adults to reach their full potential
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foster care program provides care for children from birth up to the age of 21. When children are unable to live with their biological family due to abuse, neglect or behavioral problems, the organization provides comprehensive services through identified resource parents and professionals who can adequately meet a child's needs. The organization works with children, birth/legal families, kinship resources and county- designated return resources to establish permanency, which may include reunification or adoption.
$2,109,326 spentof which $720,991 as grants$1,945,986 earned by the program38% of program spendingCobys Family Services facilitates state-subsidized adoption of foster children through the statewide adoption and permanency network (swan).
$932,445 spent$795,440 earned by the program17% of program spendingIn partnership with the lancaster county children and youth social service agency, the cobys permanency unit provides case management services to children in the legal custody of lancaster county children and youth, with the emphasis on safety, permanency and wellbeing. The unit works directly with birth families on their court ordered goals. If it is decided that a a child cannot be safely reunified with their birth family, an alternative, permanent placement will be established.
$1,156,285 spent$1,238,445 earned by the program21% of program spendingCounseling and family life education are provided.
$1,329,462 spent$1,204,065 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,527,518.
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.
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 $10M to $12M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 48% · 2019 50% · 2020 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of COBYS FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $80k → $123k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 COBYS FAMILY SERVICES’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
COBYS FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 COBYS FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 99% · 2019 67% · 2020 66% · 2021 54% · 2022 47% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of COBYS FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
72% of COBYS FAMILY SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $292k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $753k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
COBYS FAMILY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COBYS FAMILY SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: 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 COBYS FAMILY SERVICES?
- COBYS FAMILY SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,045,055 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($528,989). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COBYS FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,045,055 in grants to COBYS FAMILY SERVICES, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COBYS FAMILY SERVICES?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $528,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COBYS FAMILY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 20 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