Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE BLACK SCHOOL INC
THE BLACK SCHOOL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,492,943 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,950,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Black School Inc does
Mission
The black school's mission is to use art and activism to transform social realities through black love, healing and self-determination. The black school is an experimental art school teaching bipoc and ally students to become agents of change in their communities through art & design education and programming based in african diasporic histories, priortizing local community needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Building community through transformative art education.
$546,368 spent$900 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $546,368.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $477k to $2.2M (+361%).
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.
95% of THE BLACK SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $35k → $151k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THE BLACK SCHOOL INC’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
THE BLACK SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 71% · 2022 98% · 2023 58% — 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
THE BLACK SCHOOL INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE BLACK SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE BLACK SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$39k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE BLACK SCHOOL INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BLACK SCHOOL INC: 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 THE BLACK SCHOOL INC?
- THE BLACK SCHOOL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,492,943 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,950,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BLACK SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,492,943 in grants to THE BLACK SCHOOL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BLACK SCHOOL INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BLACK SCHOOL INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing