Washington · Nonprofit
NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS
NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,779 to it, the largest being THE NORMAN & EMMY LOU ILLGES FOUNDATION ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $269k
- Net assets
- $0
What Nola Micro Schools does
Mission
NOLA Micro Schools is a low-cost independent school that serves an ethnically and economically diverse community of families from across New Orleans. Our core belief - that every child should be inspired and supported to realize their potential to change the world - has driven us to build a learner-centered school where children see themselves as vital members of their communities and as future leaders of their generation. In our mixed-age studios, we prepare students to pursue their passions and creativity through a blending of state-of-the-art software, Quest-like projects with real-world applications, Socratic discussions, and apprenticeships with community partners.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide an independent, individualized education for students grades 2-8 in the Greater New Orleans area
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2021 to 2022, from $46k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $121k → $5.
1 of 5 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 NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS’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
NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
45% 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 NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 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
NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS: 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 NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS?
- NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,779 to it, the largest being THE NORMAN & EMMY LOU ILLGES FOUNDATION ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $268,779 in grants to NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS?
- THE NORMAN & EMMY LOU ILLGES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 5 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