Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,169,955 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,293,600). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $58M
What The Cobbs Creek Restoration and Community Foundation does
Mission
The mission of The Cobbs Creek Restoration and Community Foundation is to build lives and improve communities through golf and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation is entering into a long-term lease with the city of philadelphia for the rehabiliation, restoration, use, maintenance and management of the cobbs creek waterway and golf course. The foundation focuses on improving the lives of young people in its community, including without limitation, by teaching them life skills using the game of golf as a tool to achieve this purpose. The foundation is in the process of establishing after-school programming at the cobbs creek golf course.
$10,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,000.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $9.5M to $41M (+332%).
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.
98% of THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Chris Lange Sr
Founding CEO
Board chair
Chris Maguire
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $605k → $4.5M.
15 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
66% 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 THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 83% · 2020 58% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 23% — 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
55% of THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
65% of THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION'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 $10M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,169,955 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,293,600). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $29,169,955 in grants to THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,293,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 51 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