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BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS

BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,011,716 to it, the largest being THE CITY FUND ($4,729,262). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.6M
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$6.0M
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
2/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($624k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 58 ($1.3M) Expenses 176 ($1.1M) Net assets 114 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 40 ($909k) Expenses 306 ($1.9M) Net assets 54 ($894k)2024 Revenue 113 ($2.6M) Expenses 289 ($1.8M) Net assets 101 ($1.7M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (113)Expenses (289)Net assets (101)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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
21
$234k
22
$999k
23
$781k
24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.3M.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
The City Fundunclassified
$4.7M
funders
1
1
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS’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

BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS.

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states in all.

MO
VA
LA

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

21
22
23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

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 BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS

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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Baton Rouge Alliance for Students Action · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS: 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 BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS?
BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,011,716 to it, the largest being THE CITY FUND ($4,729,262). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,011,716 in grants to BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS?
THE CITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,729,262 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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