Louisiana · Nonprofit
REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION
REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ($49,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Reaching for the Stars Foundation does
Mission
To enchance life skills for opportunity youth throughout the greater new orleans area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Afterschool mentorship program
$11,651 spent59% of program spendingCommunity outreach program
$7,993 spent41% of program spendingCcmc recruitment program
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,644.
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 $20k to $8k (−58%).
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.
100% of REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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.
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
Brian Randolph
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2023 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
REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION: 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 REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION?
- REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ($49,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $100,000 in grants to REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION?
- LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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