Louisiana · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED
ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,274,577 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC ($2,168,965). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Advocates for Science and Mathematics Ed does
Mission
Advocates for Science and Mathematics Education, inc operates an open-admission charter school that prepares under-served new orleans students for college and career success through a rigorous school culture that emphasizes academic success and science and mathematics education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advocates for Science and Mathematics Education, inc has become a charter school that works within the state of louisiana system and the new orleans public school system. The school provides a rigorous high school curriculum with an emphasis in science and mathematics in asupporting environment of learning that prepares sudents to make informed choices about post-secondary pursuits. Approximately 600 students were served during this fiscal year.
$8,192,671 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,192,671.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.0M to $4.9M (+62%).
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 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 85% · 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 89% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Joseph Caverly
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $322k → $200k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED’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
ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 87% · 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED?
- ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,274,577 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC ($2,168,965). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,274,577 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED?
- FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,168,965 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 7 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