Louisiana · Nonprofit
HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY
HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,117,366 to it, the largest being HELIX STEAM PROPERTIES ($1,086,366). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $347k
What Helix Network of Educational Choices D/B/A Mentorship Academy does
Mission
Mentorship steam academy is a projectbased learning school that emphasizes hands on projects in the areas of science, technology, engineering, art, math, digital arts, film, and music production. Mentorship steam academy is an early college that blends high school and college into a coherent educational program. Mentorship steam academy program aims to prepare all students to undertake a fouryear college or university career pathway. It is rigorous, demands high expectations and provides the foundation for entry and success at the postsecondary level. Mentorship steam academy is designed to include a onetoone laptop program for students and teachers so that visual, handson learning opportunities are available across the curriculum. In the past four years, mentorship steam academy school performance score has increased from a letter grade of a f' to a b approximately 50 points in growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mentorship steam academy is a steam based learning high school that emphasizes college, career, and citizenship preparation and development. Mentorship has shown a unique ability to improve school performance scores while continuing to serve a population that is over 80% economically disadvantaged. Enrollment is approximately 400 9th to 12th grade students and most of these students are coming from communities located in the north baton rouge area. Mentorship has been awarded three top gains awards from the louisiana department of education since 2014. The air force jrotc program was approved by the department of defense and began at mentorship during the 2016 2017 school year. This enhanced mentorship's steam emphasis and gave students all over east baton rouge parish an opportunity to be part of the only air force jrotc program in the parish, and it continues to thrive.
$5,814,592 spent$155,742 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,814,592.
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 $1.9M to $17M (+753%).
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 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 82% · 2022 95% · 2023 77% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 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
Arthur Cooper
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.1M → $31k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY’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 NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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 NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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 NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY
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In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY?
- HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,117,366 to it, the largest being HELIX STEAM PROPERTIES ($1,086,366). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,117,366 in grants to HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY?
- HELIX STEAM PROPERTIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,086,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES D/B/A MENTORSHIP ACADEMY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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