Louisiana · Nonprofit
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,515,077 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ($17,518,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $50M
- Net assets
- $20M
What New Schools for New Orleans Inc does
Mission
The mission of nsno is to achieve excellent public schools for every child in new orleans by: (1) attracting and preparing talent to teach and lead (2) launching and supporting open-enrollment public charter schools and (3) advocating for accountable (continued on schedule o) and sustainable high-quality public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Portfolio: nsno invests in schools and partners with the orleans parish school board to improve the quality of new orleans' school options.nsno will broaden their effort to identify and support new school models that have promising approaches or fulfill specific citywide demands from students and families.nsno also recognizes that far too many children are being underserved in our schools. Nsno will work with the district and other support organizations to ensure students are not required to remain in schools that do not meet their needs.
$2,586,133 spentof which $1,120,725 as grants$304,432 earned by the program32% of program spendingPolicy and communications: nsno provides communications and policy support to maintain a reform-friendly environment.nsno will diligently monitor the policy landscape and collaborate with their partners to help opsb implement policies that allow great schools to thrive. Nsno will help share the stories of the great work happening in their schools, while also shining a light on the challenges their system still faces and how their city is working to solve them.r more rigorous standards.
$1,062,501 spent13% of program spendingTalent: nsno takes a leading role in coordinating solutions to the city's teacher recruitment and retention challenges.nsno was awarded a us department of education teacher incentive fund grant to promote student achievement and educator excellence in new orleans public schools. Teachers will be evaluated based on multiple observations and a measure of student achievement. These evaluations will allow school leaders and organization administrators to provide aligned support designed to enable teachers and leaders to become more effective educators. In addition, results from these evaluations will be used to determine educator eligibility for performance-based compensation systems. By championing professional (continued on sch. O) excellence with a focus on student achievement, nola tif will support the continued drive toward achieving excellent public schools for every child in new orleans. Nsno was also awarded a us department of education teacher and school leader incentrive grant to support partner schools implementing, imporving, or expanding their overall human capital management system (hcms), including a performance-based compensation system (pbcs).
$4,387,921 spentof which $1,485,553 as grants55% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,036,555.
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 2023 to 2024, from $18M to $24M (+33%).
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 32% · 2018 34% · 2019 27% · 2020 37% · 2021 44% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% · 2024 32% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Stephen W Hales Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $868k → $5.4M.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 NEW ORLEANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 64% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% — 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
48% of NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC'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
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.3M on record.
- Department of Education$31.3M
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 NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,515,077 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ($17,518,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $49,515,077 in grants to NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC?
- CITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,518,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS 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 35 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