Louisiana · Nonprofit
AGENDA FOR CHILDREN
AGENDA FOR CHILDREN (Louisiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,752,622 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($4,430,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Agenda for Children does
Mission
We support children and families by expanding access to essential resources, promoting healthy development and a strong start in life through high-quality early education and care, and strengthening the people, organizations, and systems that support children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Agenda for Children was named the lead administrator of orleans parish's new early care and education millage for 2023-2028. Since then, we have spearheaded the country's third-largest expansion of early childhood education and numerous innovations that have been replicated throughout the state and nation; increasing service by over 160% and reaching over 2,200 children ages 0-3. Afc secured over $21 million in matching state funding through the early childhood education fund (ecef) to support over 700+ accessible early childhood education seats for children ages 0-3. Launched the child care assistance program b-3, adding 470 seats for new orleans children ages 0-3.
$39,999,113 spentof which $27,162,844 as grants83% of program spendingAgenda for Children lead sector capacity building by administering a $2.4m wage enhancement grant program, offering up to $3,000 in retention bonuses to over 900 teachers and securing a second year of funding from the city of new orleans.
$2,400,000 spentof which $2,280,000 as grants5% of program spendingAgenda for Children sub-granted over $5.6m through over 400 grants to child care providers to support quality, facilities, administrative support, and student enrollment verification.
$5,681,532 spentof which $5,681,532 as grants12% of program spendingAgenda for Children provided differentiated coaching, which is high quality coaching for child care staff; group training that was developed and delivered by content experts; and acted as a centralized source of child care information and supported families and the industry within their communities. Agenda for Children and partners provide instructional coaches to each center participating in the program, who support and develop each teacher with noeen city seats students in their classroom; conduct assessments in the classrooms of the environment (iters) and of the interactions between the teachers and students (class). Agenda also played a major role in facilitating the provision of emergency respite care during hurricanes and the pandemic.
$311,676 spent$33,166 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,392,321.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $20M (+102%).
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 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 82% · 2022 69% · 2023 86% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jennifer Roberts
Chief executive officer
Board chair
John Morton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $370k → $1.6M.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $35k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Agenda for Children). These are real filings, and they are not money AGENDA FOR CHILDREN raised.
From the IRS filings of AGENDA FOR CHILDREN’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
AGENDA FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 26% · 2021 61% · 2022 42% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of AGENDA FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
AGENDA FOR CHILDREN draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $605k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like AGENDA FOR CHILDREN
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Orleans Early Education Network · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGENDA FOR CHILDREN?
- AGENDA FOR CHILDREN (Louisiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,752,622 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($4,430,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGENDA FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $10,752,622 in grants to AGENDA FOR CHILDREN, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGENDA FOR CHILDREN?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGENDA FOR CHILDREN 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 29 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