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New Schools for Baton Rouge

NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE's mission is to transform schools citywide to ensure there is an excellent school for every child in our city.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$47MHealth$313kYouth Development$283kCommunity Improvement$220kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kPhilanthropy$47kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $2,148,644, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,258,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $109,671 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $811k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$215,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC$300,000
HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$220,000
GEO ACADEMIES OF EBR$215,000
JCFA (JEFFERSON CHAMBER FOUNDATION ACADEMY)$150,000
NEW SCHOOL FACILITY PARTNERS$130,673
LOUISIANA ACADEMY OF PRODUCTION$95,471
LSU FOUNDATION$37,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE CENTER FOR LITERACY LEARNING: $15k → 15%THE CENTER FOR LITERACY LEARNING: $10k → 15%THE CENTER FOR LITERACY LEARNING: $10k → 15%PROJECT 7085 INC: $25k → 19%PROJECT 7085 INC: $17k → 19%YMCA OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $10k → 19%THE BRIDGE AGENCY: $27k → 19%THE BRIDGE AGENCY: $20k → 19%THE BRIDGE AGENCY: $10k → 19%REDSTICK CARES: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of New Schools for Baton Rouge’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 78%.

New Schools for Baton Rougelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 35 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
19

Total granted

$42M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+12%

Still filing today

91%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +257%
  • GH
    GREAT HEARTS LOUISIANA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.6M · revenue ×39 · 100% of their budget
  • HC
    HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • BR
    BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue +13% · 56% of their budget
  • BM
    BASIS MID CITY BOOSTERS
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • IP
    IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOUISIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $615k · revenue +50%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Baton Rouge College Preparatory Inc

Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.

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2
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…

Education
3
Inspirenola Charter Schools

To inspire an educational movement where students can develop academic and personal skills in order to be prepared for college, their community and the world.

Education
4
Algiers Charter School Association

The algiers charter school association, inc., in conjunction with the orleans parish school board, has elected to establish charter schools to address the educational needs of families who are seeking educational alternatives to improve…

Education
5
Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans

The mission of ecole bilingue is to develop globally literate students through a rigorous bilingual french-american curriculum, set in a nurturing and multicultural community. we guide our students to excel academically, foster their…

Education
6
Renew - Reinventing Education

The renew charter management organization will transform underperforming schools into academically rigorous schools that prepare students for the next level of achievement, including high school, college, and career.

Education
7
Lycee Francais De La Nouvelle Orleans

Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.

Education
8
Louisiana Charter School Alliance

The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…

Education
9
Idea Public Schools of Nola Inc

Idea public schools prepares students from primarily undeserved communities for success in college and citizenship by providing educational services to students in grade k (kindergarten) through grade 12 (twelve).

Education
10
Louisiana Charter Schools in Action

Educating and advocating for Charter Schools in Louisiana

Arts & Culture
11
The Einstein Group Inc

To nurture students to be academically strong, as well as socially and emotionally resilient.

Education
12
Libertas College Preparatory

The mission of libertas college preparatory charter school is to equip middle school students in grades 4-8 with the academic skills and the strength of character needed to thrive in and graduate from high-performing high schools and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baton Rouge Alliance for Students; the most unlike its peers is Academy of Collaborative Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDEA Public Schools: $7,561,148 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsGREAT HEARTS LOUISIANA INC: $4,563,770 · EducationGREAT HEARTS LOUISIANA INCNSBR FACILITIES INC: $4,488,692 · EducationNSBR FACILITIES INCHELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $4,091,802 · EducationHELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLSGEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $3,421,405 · EducationGEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGENEW SCHOOL FACILITY PARTNERS: $1,941,626 · EducationDISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $1,880,000 · EducationNSBR-F GARDERE: $1,501,862 · Education+22 more: $11,898,420 · Education+22 moreNEW SCHOOLS FOR LOUISIANA: $2,445,709 · OtherNEW SCHOOLS …BASIS MID CITY BOOSTERS: $1,000,000 · OtherBASIS MID CI…CITY YEAR INC: $900,125 · OtherCITY YEAR IN…Louisiana Resource Center for Educators: $630,000 · OtherLouisiana Re…FRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $350,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF K…+4 more: $113,022 · OtherTHE EMERGE CENTER INC: $349,910 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOUISIANA ACADEMY: $95,471 · Youth DevelopmentBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $30,481 · Youth DevelopmentI AM Empowering The Next Generation: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe BRidge Agency INC: $56,800 · Human ServicesPROJECT 70805 INC: $42,008 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $10,000 · Human ServicesREDSTICK CARES: $10,000 · Human ServicesDialogue on Race Louisiana: $6,200 · Human ServicesLINE 4 LINE: $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLS PROJECT: $37,500 · Arts & CultureKIDS ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN RESTORATION ENHANCEMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$41,348,725Other$5,438,856Philanthropy$359,910Youth Development$170,952Human Services$160,008Arts & Culture$132,500Community Improvement$40,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDEA Public Schools: $7,561,148 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT HEARTS LOUISIANA INC: $4,563,770 over 4y, 100% of budgetNSBR FACILITIES INC: $4,488,692 over 7y, 98% of budgetHELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $4,091,802 over 7y, 22% of budgetGEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $3,421,405 over 7y, 10% of budgetNEW SCHOOL FACILITY PARTNERS: $1,941,626 over 3y, 69% of budgetDISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $1,880,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNSBR-F GARDERE: $1,501,862 over 4y, 79% of budgetBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,300,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $1,296,300 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBBR Schools Inc: $1,287,850 over 4y, 13% of budgetBATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS: $1,271,054 over 1y, 56% of budgetTHIRD FUTURE SCHOOLS: $1,093,989 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $998,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $900,125 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $630,323 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLouisiana Resource Center for Educators: $630,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetIDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOUISIANA INC: $615,471 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR APPRENTICESHIP LEARNING: $461,809 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetREDESIGN SCHOOLS LOUISIANA: $444,850 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EMERGE CENTER INC: $349,910 over 8y, 12% of budgetST LILLIAN ACADEMY: $260,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFoundation for East Baton Rouge School System: $250,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetFriends of BASIS Louisiana: $210,212 over 1y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetJCFA: $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $145,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $115,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINE 4 LINE: $70,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetACADEMY OF COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION: $60,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetFranciscan Baton Rouge Inc: $57,062 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe BRidge Agency INC: $56,800 over 3y, 13% of budgetLouisiana Association of Public Charter: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT: $37,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $30,481 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetI AM Empowering The Next Generation: $30,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetKIDS ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDYSLEXIA RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN RESTORATION ENHANCEMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MAXINE GIARDINA CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDSTICK CARES: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Huey & Angelina W…Baton Rouge Area Foun…The Merice Boo Johnst…Baton Rouge Alliance …Rotary Club of Baton …The Charles Lamar Fam…Pro Bono Publico Foun…Capital Area United W…The Greater New Orlea…Irene W & Cb Penningt…City FundNsbr Facilities Inc
The Huey & Angelina Wilson FoundationLA34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Baton Rouge Alliance for Students · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · City Fund · Nsbr Facilities Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Schools for Baton Rouge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Schools for Baton Rouge. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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