Connecticut · Nonprofit
COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC
COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,969 to it, the largest being Oechsle Family Foundation Inc ($610,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Cold Spring School Inc does
Mission
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cold spring school is an independent day school with approximately 150 students in preschool through sixth grade. The students represent the diverse cultural, racial and economic backgrounds found in the greater new haven, connecticut area. The school occupies three renovated buildings overlooking new haven harbor and a city park.classrooms have two full-time teachers: a head teacher and an associate teacher. A low student-teacher ratio allows teachers to provide individual assessment, coaching and instruction. Classrooms are designed with spaces that accommodate small, cooperative group learning as well as one-on-one learning with a teacher. Each classroom also has space for whole-class meetings that typically start and end each day's activities. Children usually stay with a head teacher for two years, allowing student, family and teacher to form a close partnership and providing many opportunities for social and academic growth.the school employs a thematic approach which integrates the study of language, arts, math, social studies and science. Through age-appropriate themes, teachers support the development of a range of academic and social skills: researching, writing,…
$3,741,932 spentof which $871,210 as grants$4,489,895 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,741,932.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9.5M to $8.9M (−6%).
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Arati Pandit
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $28k → $236k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 COLD SPRING SCHOOL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 80% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% — 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 COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k 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
COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLD SPRING SCHOOL 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Institute for Educational Innovation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC?
- COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,969 to it, the largest being Oechsle Family Foundation Inc ($610,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,119,969 in grants to COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC?
- Oechsle Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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