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CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS

CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS (Louisiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,711,796 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($2,143,522). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$51M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$15M
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Crescent City Schools does

Mission

The mission of Crescent City Schools is to support, develop and manage open enrollment charter schools that raise student achievement and prepare students for college.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, Crescent City Schools served more than 2,600 students in new orleans across four campuses: harriet tubman charter school, tubman montessori, dorothy height charter school, and mildred osborne charter school. Each of the schools in the network received a grade of a for the "interests and opportunities" measure, as measured by the louisiana department of education. Ccs is also proud to share that all of its schools earned a grade of a for the ldoe's dropout credit accumulation index, which measures how well-prepared former ccs students were for high school. Ccs is also proud to operate two alternative programs: aurora (for students who need individualized social, emotional, and behavioral supports) and constellations (a program for students with severe cognitive disabilities).

    $48,131,828 spent$577,603 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $48,131,828.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($24M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 111 ($25M) Expenses 102 ($25M) Net assets 138 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 134 ($30M) Expenses 120 ($29M) Net assets 218 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 164 ($37M) Expenses 136 ($33M) Net assets 521 ($7.1M)2021 Revenue 148 ($34M) Expenses 135 ($33M) Net assets 581 ($7.9M)2022 Revenue 167 ($38M) Expenses 154 ($37M) Net assets 620 ($8.4M)2023 Revenue 220 ($50M) Expenses 188 ($46M) Net assets 916 ($12M)2024 Revenue 236 ($54M) Expenses 209 ($51M) Net assets 1125 ($15M)2025 Revenue 223 ($51M) Expenses 208 ($51M) Net assets 1129 ($15M)
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Revenue (223)Expenses (208)Net assets (1129)

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 $12M to $17M (+36%).

$3.5M
$4.0M
$5.5M
$9.9M
$11M
$12M
$17M
$18M
$18M
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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 92% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 87% · 2021 92% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.6M
’17
$522k
’18
$1.1M
’19
$4.1M
’20
$820k
’21
$527k
’22
$4.0M
’23
$2.8M
’24
$50k
’25
3.2
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

Katherine Mehok

CEO

Board chair

Monica Landry

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111517161815151820
Joined·+5+3+0+2+5+1+6+4
No longer listed·11108132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $260k → $896k.

2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS’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

CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

80% 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 CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS.

58%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 91% · 2019 45% · 2020 40% · 2021 76% · 2022 31% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.

“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

47% of CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

MN
NY
OH
AR
DC
LA
TX

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

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’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.

Federal$2.2M
grants $2.2Mcontracts $0
19
21
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$2.2M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS

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

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Crescent City Schools Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS?
CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS (Louisiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,711,796 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($2,143,522). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,711,796 in grants to CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS?
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,143,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS 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 21 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