Texas · Nonprofit
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN (Texas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,229,084 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($1,350,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children does
Mission
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children promotes early identification and intervention for children who are deaf and hard of hearing and helps them develop their maximum potential through listening, spoken language, and literacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
School for children with hearing impairment, birth through high school, including audiological and speech services. Approximately 300 students were served during the year.
$7,848,349 spentof which $587,918 as grants$928,668 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,848,349.
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 $22M to $25M (+13%).
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.
63% of SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN’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. 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.
Chief executive
Miriam M Elizondo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $472k → $1.0M.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $49M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Auditory Learning Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN raised.
From the IRS filings of SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
52% 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 SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 55% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 33% · 2023 39% — 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
54% of SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
90% of SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN 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
Organizations like SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Auditory Learning Foundation · exempt
- Sunshine Cottage Scholarship Fund · exempt
- Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (3) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN?
- SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN (Texas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,229,084 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($1,350,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $6,229,084 in grants to SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN?
- SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 47 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