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COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC

COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.7M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$50k
Grants received
$7.2M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve11.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($6.6M) Expenses 100 ($6.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 94 ($6.2M) Expenses 100 ($6.4M) Net assets 91 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 102 ($6.7M) Expenses 106 ($6.8M) Net assets 88 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 105 ($6.9M) Expenses 94 ($6.1M) Net assets 120 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 110 ($7.2M) Expenses 104 ($6.7M) Net assets 140 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 119 ($7.8M) Expenses 106 ($6.8M) Net assets 178 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 117 ($7.7M) Expenses 109 ($7.0M) Net assets 205 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 127 ($8.4M) Expenses 120 ($7.7M) Net assets 243 ($6.5M)2025 Revenue 132 ($8.7M) Expenses 124 ($8.0M) Net assets 272 ($7.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (132)Expenses (124)Net assets (272)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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 89% · 2023 99% · 2024 97% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC’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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$156k
17
$251k
18
$79k
19
$857k
20
$536k
21
$1.0M
22
$708k
23
$664k
24
$758k
25
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $15k.

Funder
'18
'19
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

100% of COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

LA

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

18
19
21
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 COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC

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

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC: 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 COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC?
COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC?
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC 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 2funders 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