Louisiana · Nonprofit
KID SMART
KID SMART (Louisiana) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,890,224 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,159,136). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Kid Smart does
Mission
Kid Smart's mission is to engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts. We do this through integrating the arts into public schools, making them more joyful and effective places to learn.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Creative schools transforms learning in 12 orleans parish public schools through deep-impact arts integration. By embedding professional teaching artists into classrooms for full-year residencies, we provide over 3,000 students with 30-60 hours of specialized instruction that bridges common core standards with artistic expression. Our comprehensive approach includes axis, an intensive professional development program for educator teams, alongside individualized classroom coaching and full-faculty workshops. This model fosters joyful, effective learning environments where 97% of educators report significant improvements in student comprehension and curriculum retention.
$1,501,090 spentof which $216,347 as grants77% of program spendingThe bloomberg arts internship provides select new orleans public high school students with rigorous, paid professional experiences at local cultural institutions. This program equips interns with critical college and career readiness skills while fostering a path into the city's vibrant creative economy. Beyond the initial summer placement, alumni remain eligible for continued internship opportunities throughout their collegiate careers, ensuring long-term mentorship and professional development. Since its inception, the program has empowered over 1,700 students across seven cities to envision and achieve success in higher education and diverse career fields.
$149,812 spent8% of program spendingThe Kid Smart center for arts & education serves as a permanent, multi-generational hub for creativity in the heart of the 7th ward. This $5.5 million investment features six specialized creative studios-including visual arts, performing arts, and podcasting-alongside community training and convening spaces. By establishing this physical anchor, Kid Smart is growing its annual impact from 3,200 to over 8,200 individuals. The center hosts new mission-driven initiatives, including afterschool programs, summer camps, and creative aging workshops, while providing a vital gathering space for educators and partners to advance arts equity across the region.
$302,069 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,952,971.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $3.6M (+118%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 18% · 2022 15% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of KID SMART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Elise Gallinot Goldman
Executive director
Board chair
Krystal Hardy Allen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $176k → $497k.
7 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 KID SMART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
KID SMART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 KID SMART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 63% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% — 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
45% of KID SMART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
54% of KID SMART's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
KID SMART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KID SMART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $570k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$570k
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 KID SMART
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Orleans Arts Education Alliance LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KID SMART: 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 KID SMART?
- KID SMART (Louisiana) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,890,224 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,159,136). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KID SMART have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $5,890,224 in grants to KID SMART, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KID SMART?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,159,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KID SMART 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 61 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing