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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.

Revenue FY2025
$8.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$7.2M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Community Leaders Advocating Student Success Inc does

Mission

The mission of fannie c. Williams charter school is to achieve the highest success through collaboration of staff, parents and community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To achieve the highest success through collaboration of staff, parents and community.

    $6,056,832 spent$73,752 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,056,832.

02The 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)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (124)Net assets (272)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $5.7M (+33%).

$3.0M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$3.8M
$4.3M
$5.7M
$6.2M
$7.1M
$8.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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 · 12,352 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

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

Kelly Batiste

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed789999799
Joined·+2+1+0+0+2+0+2+0
No longer listed·10002200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
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'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

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’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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 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· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY LEADERS ADVOCATING STUDENT SUCCESS INC

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

05Profile & 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 policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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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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.

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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 2 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