Louisiana · Nonprofit
ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK
ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,168,967 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($852,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $190k
What Orleans Public Education Network does
Mission
Orleans Parish Education Network (OPEN) is a New Orleans based non-profit committed to ensuring that there is an informed and engaged community that exercises influence on policy and programs to realize excellence and equity for every child in the public schools in New Orleans. OPEN achieves this by analyzing and distributing quality educational research and policy analysis organizing local residents and groups to collect and analyze data to make policy recommendations supporting participatory decision making supporting public policy advocacy.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Engage a broad cross section of the community in sustained dialogue and learning about the conditions, challenges and possibilities regarding quality public education in New Orleans. This includes historical successes and failures in New Orleans as well as current best practices from around the world. Develop a common, community-wide defection of quality public education in New Orleans. Build the capacity of local residents and groups to collect and analyze data and make policy recommendations using a participatory research model. Residents will be engaged in identifying the information they need to be effective participants in this process, will help frame the research questions, and will participate in the research itself. Develop a structure that will enable the community definition of quality public education to be delivered and sustained for every child in New Orleans.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $187k to $235k (+25%).
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 27% · 2018 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $233k → $25k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK’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
ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 61% · 2022 42% · 2023 100% — 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
17% of ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK draws 97% 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. $488k 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
ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2019.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,877 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
Organizations like ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK
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.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK?
- ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,168,967 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($852,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,168,967 in grants to ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $852,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 11 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