Discovery Ochsner Baton Rouge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923115475
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kenner, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5042679483
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,395,440
- Expenses
- $5,362,125
- Assets
- $4,423,073
- Liabilities
- $3,859,972
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATTY GLASER PHD (CEO (THRU 6/2025))
Highest reported compensation
- PATTY GLASER PHD (CEO (THRU 6/2025)): $703,458 total reported compensation
- SHARON PREEN (CAO): $191,418 total reported compensation
- KRIS SCAIRONO (CFO): $143,087 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission, duty, and purpose of discovery ochsner baton rouge (brod) is to support discovery health sciences foundation, inc. (dhsf) in its important mission to provide a rigorous learning environment where students achieve academically, develop intellectual curiosity, and practice environmental responsibility while exploring health and science topics and careers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brod is currently open and serving grades pre-k-8th. The efforts to expand the number of seats and therefore, increase enrollment, will be funded by federal funding and private revenue sources. The private revenue sources include new schools for baton rouge, a community partnership for education in baton rouge, la and charter school growth fund, a national nonprofit that helps funds expansion and increases impact of the best public charter schools. The increased enrollment also helps support our mission to provide a high-quality education in a community of need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 97.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $703K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $431K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.