New Schools for Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA · EIN 45-3843085. Reported 76 grants totalling $25.6M to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For New Schools for Baton Rouge, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in education (NTEE B01).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $33,400. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $400,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $2,871,341. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hearts Louisiana Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $4,563,770 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nsbr Facilities Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $2,958,866 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Helix Community Schools | Baton Rouge, LA | $2,592,302 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Schools for Louisiana | Baton Rouge, LA | $2,445,709 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Geo Academies Ebr | Indianapolis, IN | $2,259,405 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Idea Public Schools | Weslaco, TX | $1,836,269 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New School Facility Partners | Kenilworth, IL | $1,810,953 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc | Kenner, LA | $1,580,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baton Rouge Alliance for Students | Baton Rouge, LA | $1,271,054 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Third Future Schools | Aurora, CO | $1,093,989 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Basis Mid City Boosters | Baton Rouge, LA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bbr Schools Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System | Baton Rouge, LA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Lillian Academy | Baton Rouge, LA | $220,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of Basis Louisiana | Scottsdale, AZ | $210,212 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of KIPP New Orleans Inc | New Orleans, LA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Education Reform Now Inc | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community School for Apprenticeship Learning Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| L S U Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $78,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Curriculum Associates LLC | Baton Rouge, LA | $75,022 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emerge Center Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $63,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Academy of Collaborative Education | Monroe, LA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bridge Agency Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $56,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Line 4 Line Oneil Barber and Beauty Salon | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Assocaition of Public Charter Schools | Metairie, LA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Walls Project | Baton Rouge, LA | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Childrens Research Center for Development and Learning | Hammond, LA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $30,481 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| I Am Empowering the Next Generation Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Girls on the Run International | Raleigh, NC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kids Orchestra Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dyslexia Resource Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Redstick Cares | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rhyse Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Maxine Giardina Charter School Inc | Thibodaux, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Young Mens Christian Association of the Capital Area | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 29 11 Academy | Baton Rouge, LA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
20 of 40 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Nsbr-F Facilities
FACILITATE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SCHOOLS IN BATON ROUGE - New Schools for Louisiana
COMMUNITY BUILDING GRANTS - Great Hearts Louisiana Inc
SUPPORT CHARTER SCHOOL EDUCATION - Idea Public Schools
YEAR 1 LAUNCH SUPPORT FOR CAMPUSES, CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION, AND INSTRUCTIONAL EQUIPMENT - Helix Community Schools
YEAR 0 LAUNCH SUPPORT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SALARIES - Geo Academies of Ebr
EXPAND GEO PREP TO K-8 PROGRAM AND LAUNCH NEXT GEN HIGH SCHOOL
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $6,794,992 | $125,000 |
| 2021 | 18 | $4,212,026 | $10,240 |
| 2022 | 17 | $10.3M | $200,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $4,281,790 | $22,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
71% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $33,400 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from New Schools for Baton Rouge's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 Lafayette Street Second Floor, Baton Rouge, LA, 70801.
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