Louisiana · Nonprofit
HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,591,802 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ($4,091,802). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $196k
What Helix Community Schools does
Mission
At Helix Community Schools, we are committed to offering students innovative academic choices in science, technology, engineering, arts & math, plus so much more. We are also charting college and career pathways for our students in the aviation industry and the legal profession with the launch of our two new schools fall 2021.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Helix Community Schools serves kindergarten through 12th grade students by engaging in a full array of educational activities in connection with its operation of the charter schools, including but not limited to, providing instruction to students enrolled in the charter schools. Only individuals eligible to attend public elementary and secondary schools will benefit from the services provided. Helix Community Schools will spend 100 percent of its time providing educational services to students enrolled in its charter schools.
$1,138,820 spent$1,859,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,138,820.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $144k to $704k (+390%).
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.
0% of HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Preston Castille Jr
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $105k → $495k.
1 of 5 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 HELIX COMMUNITY 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
HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.7M on record.
- Department of Education$7.7M
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 HELIX COMMUNITY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: 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 HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS?
- HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,591,802 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ($4,091,802). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $4,591,802 in grants to HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with $4,091,802 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELIX COMMUNITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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