Texas · Nonprofit
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN (Texas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,228,084 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($1,350,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324shared funderslocal
- Holly Lane Foundation Incportfolio match
- Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Incportfolio match
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.
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
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 47 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324shared funderslocalTX · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you
- Holly Lane Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alexis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The J Donald Childress Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ferguson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davenport-Hatch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Think Smallportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wake County Smart Start Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 $6,228,084 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 $6,228,084 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 47funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing