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FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC

FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,344 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($320,057). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$274k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$816k
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc does

Mission

To prepare under-served new orleans students for college and career success through a rigorous school culture that emphasizes academic success and science and mathematics education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To prepare under-served new orleans students for college and career success through a rigorous school culture that emphasizes academic success and science and mathematics education.

    $209,175 spentof which $166,794 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $209,175.

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 ($431k) Expenses 100 ($464k) Net assets 100 ($296k)2018 Revenue 101 ($433k) Expenses 106 ($490k) Net assets 81 ($238k)2019 Revenue 341 ($1.5M) Expenses 111 ($514k) Net assets 403 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 183 ($787k) Expenses 107 ($496k) Net assets 501 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 93 ($399k) Expenses 135 ($625k) Net assets 425 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 101 ($435k) Expenses 104 ($482k) Net assets 409 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 66 ($284k) Expenses 104 ($481k) Net assets 342 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 83 ($356k) Expenses 89 ($411k) Net assets 324 ($957k)2025 Revenue 64 ($274k) Expenses 89 ($415k) Net assets 276 ($816k)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (89)Net assets (276)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 2018 to 2019, from $431k to $1.3M (+211%).

$541k
$431k
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$907k
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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: 2021 4% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’17
−$57k
’18
$953k
’19
$290k
’20
−$226k
’21
−$47k
’22
−$197k
’23
−$55k
’24
−$141k
’25
26
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

Andrea Williams

Executive director

Board chair

Melvenia Martin Phd

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed282829333633222112
Joined·+0+10+10+14+1+4+9+1
No longer listed·096114151010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $125k → $106k.

Funder
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total
Youthforce Nolaunclassified
$20k
funders
5
7
6
8
8
8
8
5
3

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC’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

FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

65% 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 FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC.

28%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 46% · 2019 45% · 2020 39% · 2021 34% · 2022 36% · 2023 38% — 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

33% of FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC'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

68% of FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

NY
MA
MD
LA
TX

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

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’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve25.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Louisiana

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Nationally

Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts Foundation Inc89%Advocates for Science and Mathematics Ed87%New Schools for New Orleans Inc85%Math Engineering and Science Academy Charter High School85%Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science Foundation85%Academy of Mathematics and Science Inc84%Access Educational Services Inc84%First in Missouri84%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 31%Fundraising 18%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC?
FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,344 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($320,057). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,144,344 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC?
THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $320,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION 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 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