Louisiana · Nonprofit
Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School
Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,435 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($405,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $663k
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School does
Mission
Homer a. Plessy community school fosters project-based learning through the arts in a joyful and diverse environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the Plessy School is to develop students who think critically and act responsibly as citizens.
$11,401,850 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,401,850.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $6.8M (+213%).
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 28% · 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 25% · 2024 18% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Meghan Raychaudhuri
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $46k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School’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
Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 66% · 2022 42% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School: 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 Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School?
- Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,435 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($405,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $663,435 in grants to Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC is the largest funder on record, with $405,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School 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 6 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