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COTS INC

EIN 39-1913179 APPLETON, WI

Revenue 2025
$1,244,829
Expenses 2025
$1,547,375

Program services were 82.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L40
Classification
2000
Street
819 S WEST AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • PATTY DEGOEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREG GILL JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN PETERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN SCHMIDT

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTENE STACKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE WILZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $25,325
    From this org
    $10,425
    From related orgs
    $14,900
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CINDY SAHOTSKY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,813
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $136,813
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CATHIE TIERNEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHI SEIFERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL WELLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEAN BASTEN

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE SCHULER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGELO NINIVAGGI

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMY PFEFFERLE OELHAFEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAYON BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNE RENARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM CASTLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOY RADFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE VAN GOMPEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN LIGHTFUSS LEFT TREASURER IN JAN

    TREASURER/CFO

    Total calculated
    $101,576
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $101,576
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,244,829
    Expenses
    $1,547,375
    Contributions
    $958,336
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,266,562
    Expenses
    $1,262,074
    Contributions
    $909,005
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,632,542
    Expenses
    $1,019,396
    Contributions
    $1,296,836
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,197,153
    Expenses
    $993,753
    Contributions
    $935,865
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,044,365
    Expenses
    $806,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,402,736

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,172,574
    Expenses
    $761,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,042,744

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $722,613
    Expenses
    $697,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,637,547

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $716,008
    Expenses
    $699,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,593,044

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $710,000
    Expenses
    $777,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,581,508

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $959,881
    Expenses
    $739,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,630,155

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $601,876
    Expenses
    $632,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,483,317

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $567,998
    Expenses
    $583,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,535,160

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,281,575
    Expenses
    $1,120,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,214,048

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $860,747
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,092,662

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.