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Georgia · Nonprofit
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL (Georgia) is funded by 17 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $279,406 in grants to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 8,432 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,432 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
2% of THE COTTAGE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (49% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $3k → $12k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 THE COTTAGE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 91% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 98% · 2022 47% · 2023 64% · 2024 49% · 2025 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
23% of THE COTTAGE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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.
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 17 funders put you under-funded among the 281 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
69% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 17funders 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. view filing