Louisiana · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC
DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,400,573 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ($1,880,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of discovery health sciences foundation is to provide a rigorous learning environment where students achieve academically, develop intellectual curiosity, and practice environmental responsibility while exploring health and science topics and careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Discovery charter schools are open-enrollment type 1 charter schools authorized by jefferson parish public school system. All discovery schools are free public schools that have the flexibility to adapt to the educational needs of individual students.discovery schools began serving families of jefferson parish in 2013. Originally an idea held by a small group of jefferson parish residents to reform public education, it has since grown into a successful and high demand charter school network. Founded in 2013, kenner discovery health sciences academy opened its doors to 420 students in grades pre-k-3rd, 5th and 6th grade. Each year, kenner discovery added more grade levels and students. Now in its eleventh year, the school serves over 2,000 students in grades pre-k-12.
$32,022,305 spent$1,951,235 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $32,022,305.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $29M (+70%).
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: 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Ronnie Slone
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $39k → $799k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 31% · 2019 52% · 2020 43% · 2021 76% · 2022 70% · 2023 98% — 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
50% of DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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.
Against its field
DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC 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 DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Friends of Discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc · exempt
- Discovery Ochsner Baton Rouge · exempt
- Friends of Discovery Ochsner Baton Rouge · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION 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 DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC?
- DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,400,573 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ($1,880,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,400,573 in grants to DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with $1,880,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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