Texas · Nonprofit
THE PARENTING COTTAGE
THE PARENTING COTTAGE (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,290 to it, the largest being CH FOUNDATION INC ($252,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $347k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Parenting Cottage does
Mission
The vision of The Parenting Cottage is to build a strong community by first building strong families. The vision is implemented through the delivery of program services, adhering to the agency's mission statement of providing hope, education, resources and encouragement to families with children ages 0 - kindergarten entry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Parenting Cottage provided a broad range of educational services to families in lubbock county, including the implementation of an in home visitation program utilizing a nationally recognized curriculum, parents as teachers, that provides parenting education, early childhood development education and tools for parents to move their family towards self-sufficiency, increasing the strength of the family unit and their ability to sustain their family. The majority of families served present with multiple challenges including the lack of basic resources, incomes below the poverty level, low educational attainment and inadequate or inaccurate knowledge of early childhood development. Other high risk factors for family stability include first time parents, single parents and teen parents. Evidence based educational programs provided almost 9,000 client encounters with families in 2024. The parents as teachers home visiting program provided almost 40% of the total encounters serving just over 200 families impacting over 400 children. Group parenting efforts for parents expecting a baby and for those attempting reunification of their families following a legal intervention by child…
$919,601 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $919,601.
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 2018 to 2019, from $901k to $1.0M (+16%).
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: 2017 61% · 2018 61% · 2019 59% · 2020 66% · 2021 68% · 2022 66% · 2023 69% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE PARENTING COTTAGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Carla Olson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $46k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $1.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lubbock Area United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PARENTING COTTAGE raised.
From the IRS filings of THE PARENTING COTTAGE’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 PARENTING COTTAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 76% · 2020 52% · 2021 80% · 2022 60% · 2023 78% — 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
63% of THE PARENTING COTTAGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of THE PARENTING COTTAGE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $890 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PARENTING COTTAGE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE PARENTING COTTAGE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PARENTING COTTAGE?
- THE PARENTING COTTAGE (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,290 to it, the largest being CH FOUNDATION INC ($252,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PARENTING COTTAGE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $347,290 in grants to THE PARENTING COTTAGE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PARENTING COTTAGE?
- CH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $252,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PARENTING COTTAGE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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