New York · Nonprofit
COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE
COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,731,318 to it, the largest being THE TAFT FOUNDATION ($1,510,407). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Cooke School and Institute does
Mission
The Cooke School and Institute envisions a world in which all people with disabilities are included as valued members of their communities, leading independent and purposeful lives. To realize this vision, our school educates students with diverse developmental disabilities and backgrounds, from early childhood through young adulthood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Cooke School serves 321 students across two academic divisions-our K-12 program-and our Transitions Program for young adults ages 18-22. We provide individualized, differentiated special education instruction that promotes self-determination, independence, and long-term success. A deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is foundational to a Cooke education. Our program integrates rigorous academics with comprehensive therapeutic supports delivered by a multidisciplinary team of special education teachers, speech-language therapists, occupational and physical therapists, and school psychologists. Through this collaborative approach, students build the academic, social, and functional skills necessary to become active and valued members of their communities. In addition, students engage in a comprehensive adaptive skills training program that includes internship placements and community-based learning experiences, fostering vocational readiness and the development of essential life skills.
$29,473,033 spent$35,833,785 earned by the program96% of program spendingCooke Institute (CI) furthers Cooke's mission principle by sharing its collective knowledge and commitment to improve the educational experience for all students, especially those with unique learning needs. through high-quality professional development for teachers and school leaders in literacy, special education, inclusion, and math, - ci partners include: public, parochial, and charter schools, early childhood programs, community-based organizations, cultural institutions, and business, so that all students have appropriate and equitable access to learning and improve outcomes. Annually, CI provides an average of 700 days of teacher and leadership coaching, serves an average of 170 classrooms through 40 coaching engagements in pre-k through 12th grade, impacting an estimated 6,000 students directly and indirectly, and offers almost 40 professional development sessions to professionals across NYS.
$1,382,649 spent$1,359,261 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,855,682.
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 2017 to 2018, from $30M to $77M (+160%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Andrea Pollack
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $234k → $1.1M.
10 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
32% 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 COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 48% · 2019 64% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — 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
64% of COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
68% of COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: 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 COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE?
- COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,731,318 to it, the largest being THE TAFT FOUNDATION ($1,510,407). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $5,731,318 in grants to COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE?
- THE TAFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,510,407 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 43 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