Louisiana · Nonprofit
EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC
EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,220,849 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($852,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Educators for Quality Alternatives Inc does
Mission
To provide struggling high school students with the skills, confidence, and experiences necessary to succeed in the education and career paths of their choice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization runs the net: central city, the net: gentilly, and the new orleans accelerated high school. Together these schools serve approximately 400 8th-12th graders and have consistently met or exceeded their achievement goals on the alternative accountability rubric. Over 1,000 students have graduated from the nets and the schools have earned a solid reputation among families, advocates, and educators for embracing students with significant needs and providing a transformational experience to support their academic and behavioralgrowth. Eqa runs the bridge middle school. The bridge has served every 7th and 8th grader expelled in orleans parish. This program has consistently met and exceeded all contracted goals. Since opening in 2019, only 2 middle school students in the city of new orleans has been re-expelled, a significant improvement over re-expulsion rates with all previous alternative schools. Eqa runs the nest. The nest childcare center provides free childcare to the infants and toddlers of students at eqa's high schools. Approximately 20% of eqa's students are teenage parents and having on campus childcare is an important part of supporting them in earning their…
$11,442,981 spent$53,261 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,442,981.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $4.7M (+97%).
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 90% · 2018 88% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 90% · 2024 95% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES 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. 3 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
Elizabeth Ostberg
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $70k → $77k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 58% · 2019 61% · 2020 71% · 2021 54% · 2022 96% · 2023 65% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
98% of EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES 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. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES 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 EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES 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 EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,220,849 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ($852,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,220,849 in grants to EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC is the largest funder on record, with $852,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES 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 17 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