Louisiana · Nonprofit
New Orleans College Preparatory Academie
New Orleans College Preparatory Academie (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,454,299 to it, the largest being AGENDA FOR CHILDREN ($3,274,916). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What New Orleans College Preparatory Academie does
Mission
To provide educational services according to those established by law, the charter contract and the charter application/proposal; measure pupil progress toward stated goals; and participate in pupil assessments required by law, regulation, and the state of louisiana board of elementary and secondary education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide educational services according to those established by law, the charter contract and the charter application/proposal; measure pupil progress toward stated goals; and participation in pupil assessments required by law, regulation, and the state of louisiana board of elementary and secondary education.
$1,896,623 spent$154,700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,896,623.
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.
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 $4.7M to $7.1M (+49%).
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 89% · 2018 91% · 2019 86% · 2020 91% · 2021 48% · 2022 64% · 2023 58% · 2024 41% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Zerlander Ragas
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $905k → $684k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 New Orleans College Preparatory Academie’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
New Orleans College Preparatory Academie leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 New Orleans College Preparatory Academie.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 46% · 2019 42% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 63% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of New Orleans College Preparatory Academie's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
74% of New Orleans College Preparatory Academie's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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.
Organizations like New Orleans College Preparatory Academie
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Orleans College Preparatory Academie: 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 New Orleans College Preparatory Academie?
- New Orleans College Preparatory Academie (Louisiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,454,299 to it, the largest being AGENDA FOR CHILDREN ($3,274,916). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Orleans College Preparatory Academie have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $7,454,299 in grants to New Orleans College Preparatory Academie, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Orleans College Preparatory Academie?
- AGENDA FOR CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $3,274,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Orleans College Preparatory Academie 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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