Louisiana · Nonprofit
LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being ZUSCHLAG FAMILY FOUNDATION CO RICHARD E ZUSCHLAG TRUSTEE ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inclocal
- New Schools for New Orleans Incportfolio match
- New Schools for Baton Rougeportfolio match
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.
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% · 2024 98% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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
LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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 LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Southwest Louisiana InclocalLA · funds 32 organizations near you
- New Schools for New Orleans Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for Baton Rougeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youthforce Nolaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GenYOUTH Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate 215portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Lake Charles Charter Academy Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC?
- LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being ZUSCHLAG FAMILY FOUNDATION CO RICHARD E ZUSCHLAG TRUSTEE ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC?
- ZUSCHLAG FAMILY FOUNDATION CO RICHARD E ZUSCHLAG TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE CHARLES CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing