Rhode Island · Nonprofit
COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC
COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,582 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Cowden Street Collaborative Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to cultivate a community where students take ownership of their education, preparing them to excel in high school, college, and beyond. We provide a rigorous academic experience that empowers scholars to view themselves as agents of change in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rhode island charter school with approximately 460 students completing grades kindergarten through 9th
$8,520,929 spent$8,848,519 earned by the program91% of program spendingThe school has a licensed food bank which is run by parent volunteers of the school for the benefit of the public. Additionally, the school received grants to provide assistance to families in need with disbursements made for food in fy25.
$843,427 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,364,356.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.6M to $28M (+271%).
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 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% · 2024 20% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Angelo Garcia
Founder and executive director
Board chair
Alejandro Restrepo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $441k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE 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
COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 89% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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
20% of COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $321k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$321k
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 COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC?
- COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,582 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $886,582 in grants to COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing