New Mexico · Nonprofit
COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC
COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,266 to it, the largest being Excellent Schools New Mexico ($412,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Cottonwood Classical Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization provides cottonwood classical preparatory charter school with financial assistance for its students and faculty. The organization also assists the school by being a conduit for financing the school property.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides cottonwood classical preparatory school (ccps) additional educational assistance. The organization entered into a lease purchase agreement to act as a facilitor/conduit to acquire a permanent school facility for ccps with the lease purchase starting in july 2013. Per nm statutes charter schools are not allowed to own encumbered property. Approval was obtained from the state of new school board for the transaction and agreement.
$1,244,748 spent$950,683 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,244,748.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $33M (+172%).
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: 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $22k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION 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
COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION 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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cottonwood Classical Preparatory Chapter School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC: 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 COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC?
- COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,266 to it, the largest being Excellent Schools New Mexico ($412,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $511,266 in grants to COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC?
- Excellent Schools New Mexico is the largest funder on record, with $412,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 4 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