Louisiana · Nonprofit
PRAISE ACADEMY
PRAISE ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,670 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($876,801). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $463k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $775k
What Praise Academy does
Mission
To provide an elementary school education that fosters each child's natural ability to become a productive, employable and active member of family and community through a Christ-centered foundational approach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Praise Academy at Lakeside provided a Christ-centered elementary education to 21 students in grades PK-6 during the 2024-2025 school year. The school serves a low-income, predominantly African American community. Instruction included core academic subjects (English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies), as well as Bible education, Physical Education, and enrichment programs such as cooking classes for upper elementary girls, building classes for upper elementary boys, and art and music appreciation for younger students. With a maximum 8:1 student-teacher ratio, the program provided individualized instruction tailored to each student's learning needs. During the reporting period, 100% of students successfully advanced to the next grade level. Students in grades 2-7 demonstrated an average improvement of more than one grade level in math during the first semester. All kindergarten students progressed from emergent readers to beginning readers. Additionally, a few of the students who entered the program performing below grade level advanced by at least one academic year. The program also emphasized literacy development through a daily Reading Workshop, with students in…
$361,221 spent$455,008 earned by the program92% of program spendingPraise Camp, a two-week summer camp for neighborhood children ages 5 to 13, was held in the Allendale neighborhood of Shreveport, Louisiana and in Evansville, Indiana. In all, 95 kids came to at least one day of camp in either Evansville or Allendale. The goals of the camps were: Friendship with God, friendship with each other, learning together and having fun together. Our goals of sharing the good news of Jesus and learning together were met by campers attending a daily 20-minute chapel service as well as prayer and bible lessons in their age group. Many campers heard the story of Jesus for the first time, and many were captivated by Bible stories. Campers were excited when they were presented with their own children's bible at the end of Camp. Our fun goal was met by group leaders (many of whom were Praise Academy school teachers) providing safe and engaging games, crafts, sports and learning activities which the campers enthusiastically (and loudly) participated in. And our goal of friendship with each other was not only experienced among the children who related well with each other, but spread to their families, when a large number of parents and siblings attended a…
$30,005 spent$7,704 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $391,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $673k to $898k (+34%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of PRAISE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 8 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
Paul DeCelles
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $141k → $138k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 PRAISE ACADEMY’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
PRAISE ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PRAISE ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 79% · 2022 91% · 2023 84% — 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
40% of PRAISE ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of PRAISE ACADEMY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PRAISE ACADEMY's revenue fell 22% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PRAISE ACADEMY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRAISE ACADEMY: 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 PRAISE ACADEMY?
- PRAISE ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,670 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($876,801). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRAISE ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,022,670 in grants to PRAISE ACADEMY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRAISE ACADEMY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA is the largest funder on record, with $876,801 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRAISE ACADEMY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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