Louisiana · Nonprofit
NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE
NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE (Louisiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,137,418 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ($30,916,668). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $51M
- Net assets
- $24M
What New Schools for Baton Rouge does
Mission
New Schools for Baton Rouge's mission is to transform schools citywide to ensure there is an excellent school for every child in our city. As a community partnership nsbr is bringing together talent and resources that deliver excellent schools to students and families in baton rouge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization guarantees a facility lease for one of its sponsored charter schools. The lease began in november 2025 and concludes in 2030.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Operating fund - general program servicesto create excellent schools for baton rouge students, New Schools for Baton Rouge will:1) attract high-performing schools with strong track records of success to launch in baton rouge.2) expand organizations that produce the exceptional teachers and principals required to fuel transformational change.3) support an ecosystem of reform-oriented organizations needed for schools to succeed.
$5,144,440 spentof which $2,258,315 as grants100% of program spendingThe organization guarantees a facility lease for one of its sponsored charter schools. The lease began in november 2025 and concludes in 2030.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,144,440.
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 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $37M (+103%).
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 4% · 2021 2% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE’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. 6 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
Noemi Donoso
President & CEO
Board chair
Dianna Payton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $120k → $4.1M.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.9M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE’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
NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 64% · 2021 82% · 2022 49% · 2023 97% — 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
50% of NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- New Schools for Baton Rouge Excellence Scholarship Fund LLC · disregarded
- New Schools for Baton Rouge Facilities LLC · disregarded
- Nsbr Facilities Inc · exempt
- Nsbr-F Bon Carre · exempt
- Nsbr-F Gardere · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE (Louisiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,137,418 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ($30,916,668). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $51,137,418 in grants to NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE?
- CITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,916,668 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE 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 14 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