Louisiana · Nonprofit
Rooted School Foundation
Rooted School Foundation (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,500 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $690k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $-124109
What Rooted School Foundation does
Mission
Rooted School Foundation exists to reimagine the role schools play in providing students with personal pathways to financial freedom and then scaling those opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Charter Management Organization - Rooted School Foundation (RSF) supported 2 charters schools and approximately 289 students during school year 22-23. A third Rooted charter school opened in Fall 2023
$117,928 spent26% of program spendingThe $50 Study - RSF supported 80 students through their youth cash transfer study, showing promising results. Phase II of the study is underway with another 90 students receiving transfers during fiscal year 23 -24.
$291,674 spentof which $107,100 as grants$172,500 earned by the program64% of program spendingGreen Balloon Fellowship - Internships and jobs were secured for 3 Fellows as part of Rooted's school to work program. During this summer boot camp, all 3 Fellows developed their soft-skills and workplace readiness skills through 15+ modules (examples include: communication in the workplace, giving and receiving feedback, self reflection and self identification of strengths and areas for growth) All 3 Fellows also completed the Google IT Professional Certification through Coursera. This is a certification that is in demand by employers and can be added to Fellow's resumes.
$46,143 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $455,745.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $51k to $171k (+237%).
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: 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Rooted School Foundation’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Johnson
Founder/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $125k → $300k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Rooted School Foundation’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
Rooted School Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 Rooted School Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 42% — 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.
Where its funders are
Rooted School Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k 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.
Against its field
Rooted School Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Rooted School 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rooted School 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 Rooted School Foundation?
- Rooted School Foundation (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,500 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rooted School Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,080,500 in grants to Rooted School Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rooted School Foundation?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rooted School 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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