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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.

$10M
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$2.3M
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 104 ($6.8M) Expenses 96 ($6.5M) Net assets 119 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 106 ($6.9M) Expenses 102 ($6.9M) Net assets 118 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 116 ($7.5M) Expenses 103 ($7.0M) Net assets 156 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 101 ($6.6M) Expenses 98 ($6.6M) Net assets 152 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 117 ($7.6M) Expenses 110 ($7.4M) Net assets 165 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 143 ($9.3M) Expenses 131 ($8.9M) Net assets 188 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 175 ($11M) Expenses 137 ($9.2M) Net assets 315 ($4.7M)2025 Revenue 155 ($10M) Expenses 161 ($11M) Net assets 262 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (161)Net assets (262)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$264k
’17
$288k
’18
−$14k
’19
$562k
’20
−$54k
’21
$191k
’22
$390k
’23
$2.1M
’24
−$799k
’25
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $322k → $200k.

Funder
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'21
'22
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'25*
total
Project Lead the Way Incunclassified
$30k
funders
1
3
3
3
4
4
2
1
1

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.

95%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

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
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Louisiana

Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc87%New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy Inc86%Collegiate Academies84%South Louisiana Charter Academy Foundation Inc83%Northshore Charter School83%International School of Louisiana83%Lake Charles Charter Academy Foundation Inc82%Arise Schools82%

Nationally

Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc87%New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy Inc86%Collegiate Academies84%South Louisiana Charter Academy Foundation Inc83%Northshore Charter School83%Academy of Mathematics and Science South Inc83%Academy for Science & Design83%Geo Next Generation High School Inc83%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing