Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,950 to it, the largest being THE BRAITMAYER FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $899k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What The Orchard Foundation does
Mission
The Orchard Foundation's mission is to improve academic achievement for central louisiana students by promoting best practices; recruiting, retaining, and rewarding excellent and innovative teachers; building school leadership; and strengthening school and community relationships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Orchard Foundation's work in college and career readiness encompasses three areas the cenla work ready network, college and career coaching for high school students, and jump start programs to expose cenla educators and students to career opportunities in the central louisiana region. The cenla work ready network is a system designed to link education with workforce development efforts and align them with regional economic needs. During 2024, all public high schools in the foundation's service area, central louisiana technical community college campuses, and regional business and career solutions centers accessed act's workkeys curriculum, a career training course that prepares students for certification with workkeys assessments. Workkeys is a job skills assessment system measuring real world skills that employers believe are critical to job success. Workkeys assesses three core areas: applied mathematics; workplace documents; and graphic literacy; which determines a student's national career readiness certificate (ncrc) level, an objective documentation of an employee's skills that can be accepted nationwide. During the 2023-2024 school year, 4,146 students participated in…
$1,495,535 spent46% of program spendingIn the 2023-2024 academic year, The Orchard Foundation continued to administer school readiness institutes for central louisiana pre-k, head start and childcare providers that participate in the state of louisiana's early childhood community networks. The networks seek to expand access to high quality, publicly funded early childhood education programs. In the school year 2023-2024, orchard administered 11 trainings reaching 134 educators and providers. To expand coaching capacity in the region, orchard provides opportunities for individuals to become certified as making the most of classroom interactions (mmci) / class group coaching (cgc) instructors through teachstone. Tof's current mmci instructors have continued to provide mmci workshops throughout the region. Orchard has trained a total of 20 pre-k instructors for the region, and 7 in infant/toddler.The Orchard Foundation created and led two family early literacy programs, read to soar and math to build on. In 2024, orchard led 15 read to soar workshops, reaching 187 children from 143 families. 4,200 books were distributed to participants. Orchard also led 12 math to build on workshops in 2024, reaching 137 children from 102…
$935,768 spent$761,333 earned by the program29% of program spendingIn 2024, The Orchard Foundation continued its work to support the rapides foundation's (its supported organization's) effective schools initiative by continuing professional and leadership development programs. During 2023-2024, The Orchard Foundation coordinated kagan instructional institutes for 43 area educators. The institutes featured hands-on curriculum and materials that are engaging, rigorous and motivating for students and that can immediately be brought back into the classroom and implemented in a cooperative learning model. Orchard also held trainings for new and aspiring leaders in area schools. The program is designed for teachers who are dedicated to improving the best practices in instruction and leadership. 77 participants were trained in the 5 dimensions of teaching and learning framework by the university of washington center for educational leadership. Throughout the year they had the opportunity to collaborate and observe others to develop the expertise needed to recognize high quality instruction. The leading for better instruction program allows assistant principals and principals to develop their leadership skills in guiding and supporting teachers'…
$848,477 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,279,780.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.0M to $8.6M (+191%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 99% · 2022 90% · 2023 21% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE ORCHARD 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $38k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Rapides Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ORCHARD 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
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% — 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 ORCHARD FOUNDATION 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. $18k 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
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record.
- Department of Education$6.8M
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 ORCHARD 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Rapides Foundation · exempt
- Cmap Express · exempt
- Rapides Healthcare System LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ORCHARD 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 THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION?
- THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,950 to it, the largest being THE BRAITMAYER FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $81,950 in grants to THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION?
- THE BRAITMAYER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ORCHARD 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 2017–2024), 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