Louisiana · Nonprofit
Louisiana Association of Public Charter
Louisiana Association of Public Charter (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,247,457 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,980,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Louisiana Association of Public Charter does
Mission
The mission of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools is to support, promote, and advocate for the Louisiana charter school movement, increasing student access to high quality public schools statewide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School Support Services - LAPCS provides school support and training in a number of areas including governance, finance and operations, communications, human resources and employment law. This work is done through our annual conference, group trainings throughout the year, and individual work with schools by LAPCS staff and industry experts.
$658,121 spent$261,138 earned by the program65% of program spendingThe Policy Program serves to keep charter school community stakeholders aware of and updated on legislative bills and discussions that affect the various aspects of charter school. This is accomplished by research and attendance at legislative sessions statewide.
$361,143 spent35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,019,264.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $3.3M (+72%).
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.
67% of Louisiana Association of Public Charter’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jude Melville
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $525k → $430k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Louisiana Association of Public Charter’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
Louisiana Association of Public Charter leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Louisiana Association of Public Charter.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 84% · 2019 70% · 2020 65% · 2021 51% · 2022 65% · 2023 70% — 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
60% of Louisiana Association of Public Charter's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
Louisiana Association of Public Charter draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Louisiana Association of Public Charter holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like Louisiana Association of Public Charter
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 Louisiana Association of Public Charter: 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 Louisiana Association of Public Charter?
- Louisiana Association of Public Charter (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,247,457 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,980,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Louisiana Association of Public Charter have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $6,247,457 in grants to Louisiana Association of Public Charter, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Louisiana Association of Public Charter?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Louisiana Association of Public Charter 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 16 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