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COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC

COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,293,634 to it, the largest being COMMON BOND FOUNDATION ($450,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$15M
21/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Cookson Hills Christian School Inc does

Mission

Cookson hills christian school has been providing home, school, and therapy for kids who are at-risk, since 1957.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We believe that every child needs a home that provides love, structure, and spiritual guidance. At cookson hills, kids move into a home with married houseparents (trained in trauma-informed care) along with house brothers and sisters. A healthy family where each child is a valued member is the best place to learn how to cooperate, love, and respect others.

    $1,854,219 spent$63,910 earned by the program
    58% of program spending

  2. We believe that every child needs a quality education that can prepare them for success and a hopeful future. Our k-12th grade (acsi accredited) christian school, dedicated teachers, caring staff, one-on-one coaching, small class sizes, and trauma-informed care environment gives kids the opportunity to be understood and get back on track academically.

    $1,229,003 spentof which $14,750 as grants
    39% of program spending

  3. We believe that every child needs the opportunity to heal from life's hurts. Our creative, faith-based, therapeutic services utilize mental health professionals, as well as equine experiences, to get to the source of the hurt and find healing.

    $86,471 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,169,693.

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 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 125 ($3.7M) Expenses 94 ($3.0M) Net assets 104 ($18M)2019 Revenue 89 ($2.7M) Expenses 94 ($3.0M) Net assets 103 ($18M)2020 Revenue 102 ($3.0M) Expenses 102 ($3.2M) Net assets 101 ($17M)2021 Revenue 84 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2022 Revenue 132 ($3.9M) Expenses 123 ($3.9M) Net assets 97 ($17M)2023 Revenue 106 ($3.2M) Expenses 118 ($3.7M) Net assets 96 ($17M)2024 Revenue 112 ($3.4M) Expenses 135 ($4.2M) Net assets 93 ($16M)2025 Revenue 101 ($3.0M) Expenses 125 ($3.9M) Net assets 88 ($15M)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (125)Net assets (88)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 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $16M (−4%).

$18M
$19M
$18M
$18M
$18M
$17M
$17M
$16M
$16M
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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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2022 13% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

101% of COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$142k
’17
$788k
’18
−$287k
’19
−$136k
’20
−$1.0M
’21
$74k
’22
−$544k
’23
−$862k
’24
−$889k
’25
1.0
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

Ron Riley

Executive director

Board chair

Paul Johnson

President/board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222025
Listed10151413131211
Joined·+6+3+3+1+3·
No longer listed·14414·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $379k → $458k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
7
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6
15
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15
18
12
5

11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

20%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 86% · 2019 45% · 2020 23% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 38% — 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

57% of COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

NY
IN
RI
AR
OK
TX

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

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Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN 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 Oklahoma

Oklahoma Christian Academy Inc83%Community Christian School Inc83%Heritage Hall School Inc82%Center for Children & Families Inc82%Bless the Children Ministries Inc81%Healthy Schools Oklahoma Inc81%Restoreokc Inc81%Hands of Hope Inc80%

Nationally

Christian Heritage Academy87%Heights Christian Schools85%Cookson Hills Family Ministries of Florida Inc85%Christian Home Assn - Children's Square USA85%Community Teaching Homes Inc85%Church of God Children's Home of North Carolina Inc85%Methodist Children's Home85%Christian Heritage Children's Home85%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 12 states

AK
WA
MN
WI
CO
KY
WV
VA
TN
MS
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC?
COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,293,634 to it, the largest being COMMON BOND FOUNDATION ($450,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,293,634 in grants to COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC?
COMMON BOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 35 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