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CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC

CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,119,993 to it, the largest being ECMC FOUNDATION ($1,119,993). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$106k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Center for Occupational Research and Development Inc does

Mission

Cord is a non profit organization dedicated to leading change in education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Teacher training and professional development as well as network maintenence for the North Carolina Community College System to keep the teachers up to date and develope new programs for them to use in the classroom. This is available to hundreds of teachers throughout the North Carilona System

    $261,616 spent$519,350 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

  2. National Science Foundation awards supporting continuing technical education for educators across the country. The awards are entitiled Necessary Skills Now Network, The Future of Work and Pathways to Innovation. Hundreds of eduators participate in the activities which enhance their capabilities and skills.

    $638,080 spent$655,186 earned by the program
    31% of program spending

  3. Conferences, workshops and other training where educators are informed and learn inovative methods of teaching. Several workshops are attended by hundreds of educators.

    $681,192 spent$854,001 earned by the program
    34% of program spending

  4. Program Service Expenses 445,715, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 517,857 Other programs services Various programs designed to enhance further professional development for educators in secondary and post secondary educationl fields.

    $445,715 spent$517,857 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,026,603.

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 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets -417 ($-782958)2018 Revenue 74 ($2.1M) Expenses 86 ($2.1M) Net assets -410 ($-770380)2019 Revenue 80 ($2.2M) Expenses 94 ($2.2M) Net assets -411 ($-770714)2020 Revenue 82 ($2.3M) Expenses 95 ($2.3M) Net assets -398 ($-746313)2021 Revenue 81 ($2.3M) Expenses 87 ($2.1M) Net assets -288 ($-541606)2022 Revenue 78 ($2.2M) Expenses 89 ($2.1M) Net assets -255 ($-478246)2023 Revenue 119 ($3.4M) Expenses 112 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($188k)2024 Revenue 91 ($2.6M) Expenses 109 ($2.6M) Net assets 76 ($143k)2025 Revenue 91 ($2.5M) Expenses 108 ($2.6M) Net assets 57 ($106k)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (108)Net assets (57)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+40%).

$965k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$897k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.1M
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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

0% of CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$413k
’17
$13k
’18
−$334
’19
$24k
’20
$205k
’21
$63k
’22
$666k
’23
−$45k
’24
−$37k
’25
3.5
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

Hope Cotner

President, CEO

Board chair

Annette Parker

Chair person

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed111112101212101011
Joined·+0+2+1+2+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·01300210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $960k → $10k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
total
Ecmc Foundationunclassified
$1.1M
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC’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.

Where its funders are

CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

MN

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

’17
’18
’20
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1.1M to it.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

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

Government funding CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.

Federal$7.9M
grants $7.3Mcontracts $657k
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23
Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$7.3M
  • Department of Education$657k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 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 Texas

New Orleans Center for Economic Opportunity74%Code2college74%Coppell ISD Education Foundation Inc74%Contigo Ed Inc74%Connex Foundation Inc74%Catch the Next Inc73%Edwell Inc73%Collegiate Edu-Nation73%

Nationally

National Career Technical Education Foundation79%North Carolina Education Corps78%Ncta Education Foundation Inc78%College Foundation Inc77%Career and Technical Education Consortium of States Incorporated76%Corporation for a Skilled Workforce76%Center for Courage & Renewal76%National Center for Teacher Residencies76%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Cord Foundation · exempt
  • Cord International · exempt
  • Cord Communications Inc · corp_trust
  • Cord Online Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC?
CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,119,993 to it, the largest being ECMC FOUNDATION ($1,119,993). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,119,993 in grants to CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC?
ECMC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,119,993 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 1 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