Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COTTING SCHOOL INC
COTTING SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,009,056 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,580,985). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $150M
What Cotting School Inc does
Mission
To empower our students with disabilities to achieve their highest learning potential and level of independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization provides transitional support to individuals over age 22, including social and recreational events, groups for learning daily living skills, workshops and seminars for parents and caregivers and other transitional services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Cotting day/summer program - continues to provide excellent service to our students through a collaborative care approach. Enrollment in our pre school increased and the number of project bridges partners increased for our capstone students.
$15,216,303 spent$14,104,769 earned by the program94% of program spendingConsulting and outreach - provides technology-focused assessment, consultation and professional development to improve curriculum access and functional independence to students with a wide range of physical, communication, and learning disabilities and complex medical conditions. Approximately 305 clients served.
$768,124 spent$793,649 earned by the program5% of program spendingCotting transition institute - the organization provides transitional support to individuals over age 22, including social and recreational events, groups for learning daily living skills, workshops and seminars for parents and caregivers and other transitional services.
$257,635 spent$4,860 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,242,062.
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 2020 to 2021, from $110M to $148M (+35%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 6% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of COTTING SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Chief executive
Bridget Irish
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Michael K Durkin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $339k → $650k.
11 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 COTTING SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
COTTING SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 COTTING SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 24% · 2019 54% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of COTTING SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
COTTING SCHOOL INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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
COTTING SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COTTING SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3.1M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$1k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$300
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 COTTING 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Crut (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC?
- COTTING SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,009,056 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,580,985). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COTTING SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $6,009,056 in grants to COTTING SCHOOL INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COTTING SCHOOL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,580,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COTTING SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 58 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