Georgia · Nonprofit
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,956 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $408k
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What The Cottage School Educational Resource Center Inc does
Mission
Building a sense of self for students with special learning needs through academic and experiential programming, the cottage school ("tcs") prepares individuals for fulfillment of their true potential as confident, productive and independent adults. Tcs provides individualized educational programming for adolescents who have a history of learning disabilities. We believe that there is a significant number of students, grades 3-12, who are prevented from achieving their potential due to a lack of individual attention, environmental structure, low self-confidence or weakness that other school systems are not prepared to address. Tcs offers traditional academic classes and experiential courses that include carpentry, drama, music, horticulture and culinary arts. The school's unique program focuses on life skills, career goals and educational options.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We expanded our program to k - 12 effective with the 2024-2025 school year thereby adding grades k - 2.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The cottage school ("tcs") provides individualized educational programming for adolescents with a history of learning difficulties. The elementary school served 52 students, the middle school served approximately 93 students and the high school served approximately 125 students during the fiscal year ended 5/31/2025.
$7,235,987 spentof which $242,479 as grants$8,823,055 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,235,987.
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 $15M to $19M (+34%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 14% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Steve Palmer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $26k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER 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
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 91% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 98% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — 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
22% of THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
89% of THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $44k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $364k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,956 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $407,956 in grants to THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 19 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