Louisiana · Nonprofit
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP (Louisiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,380,904 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($861,732). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $310k
What Special Education Leader Fellowship does
Mission
To ensure students with exceptionalities reach their potential, we develop special education leaders to build technical expertise and leadership skills; a shared belief in the potential of all young people; partnerships with colleagues, external (cont'd on sch o) organizations, and parents; and personal responsibility for student success
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Special Education Leader Fellowship (self) is a non-profit organization that partners with school districts, charter management organizations, and schools to significantly improve the education of children with disabilities through professional development and responsive technical assistance. During 2025, self led over 350 professional development sessions with a 99% satisfaction rate from attendees, engaged in more than 850 coaching sessions with teachers and leaders, completed approximately 150 school walkthroughs and prepared over 40 school reviews. Self serves school systems totaling over 40,000 students annually with activities across the united states, including new orleans, los angeles, and washington, d.c.
$997,533 spent$1,098,822 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $997,533.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $313k to $1.2M (+270%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 46% · 2023 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Shannon Garfield
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $361k → $649k.
1 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP’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
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
34% 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 SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP
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
72% 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 SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP: 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 SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP?
- SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP (Louisiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,380,904 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($861,732). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $4,380,904 in grants to SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,732 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 17 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