Georgia · Nonprofit
SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC
SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,951 to it, the largest being COBB EMC FOUNDATION INC ($101,650). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $583k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $475k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Special Needs Cobb Inc does
Mission
Special Needs Cobb, Inc. is committed to promoting opportunities for all people with developmental disabilities to live full, productive, self-determined lives of the highest quality by fostering local communities which embrace all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Special Needs Cobb, Inc. discontinued respite services and sold the respite home during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Supportive Group Home ProgramSpecial Needs Cobb sponsors and supports a network of 22 group homes in Cobb County, Georgia and one group home in Bartow County, Georgia that provide permanent supportive housing for adults with developmental disabilities, including homes developed under the HUD Section 811 program. The organization provides management, bookkeeping, and supervisory services to the homes; procures and administers property insurance, telephone and internet service, and repairs and maintenance on their behalf; and administers Cobb County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds used for accessibility renovations and capital improvements at the homes, including roofs, HVAC systems, flooring, and septic repairs, enabling residents to live safely in their community.
$664,946 spent$265,742 earned by the program90% of program spendingCommunity Education and OutreachSpecial Needs Cobb serves as an educational resource and voice for Cobb County residents with developmental disabilities and their families. Staff and volunteers participate annually in the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities' Disability Days at the State Capitol, educating state officials about the needs of Georgians with developmental disabilities, including access to Medicaid NOW and COMP waiver services and the needs of group home residents living with Prader-Willi syndrome. The organization offers Zoom seminars on the NOW COMP waiver for parents and guardians, and publishes frequent newsletters connecting families to service providers, community resources, and public meetings and hearings of importance.
$50,862 spent7% of program spendingRespite Care ProgramThrough its respite home, the organization provided short-term, overnight and weekend respite care for individuals with developmental disabilities, giving family caregivers temporary relief. During the year, the organization wound down the respite program and sold the respite home property, redirecting resources to its group home and community education programs.
$24,810 spent$3,930 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $740,618.
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.
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 $1.9M to $1.3M (−30%).
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 7% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2023 18% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Debra Day
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $19k → $56k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 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
SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 79% · 2019 93% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% — 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
63% of SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
55% of SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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In Georgia
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
85%
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 SPECIAL NEEDS COBB 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 SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC?
- SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,951 to it, the largest being COBB EMC FOUNDATION INC ($101,650). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $474,951 in grants to SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL NEEDS COBB INC?
- COBB EMC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL NEEDS COBB 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing