Louisiana Charter School Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261326916
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2009
Location
New Orleans, LA, USA
Phone
5042677239
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$351,754
Expenses
$366,825
Assets
$41,835
Liabilities
$11,804

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dr Sean WIlson (Executive Director)
  • Dr Kenneth Ducote (Executive Director)
  • Dr Michelle Douglass (Board President)
  • Mervin Jackson (Board Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Dr Sean WIlson (Executive Director): $71,480 total reported compensation
  • Dr Kenneth Ducote (Executive Director): $45,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities include coordinating professional cohorts for school leaders, hosting teacher recruitment fairs, providing training and compliance resources, and developing partnerships to improve educational quality.

What it reported doing in 2023

The Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools (GNOCCS) organizes the annual Charter School Teacher Fair as a strategic initiative to strengthen the educator workforce across the region. This event serves as a centralized recruitment platform, enabling prospective teachers to engage directly with representatives from multiple charter schools in one setting. By consolidating recruitment efforts, the Teacher Fair creates efficiencies for both schools and candidates, ensuring that qualified educators are effectively matched with available teaching positions. In 2025, the Teacher Fair registered over 400 prospective educators, with more than 300 attending in person. The event directly facilitated 30 teacher hires, while outreach efforts extended to more than 10,000 educators along the Gulf Coast. Beyond immediate placements, the fair reduced recruitment costs for participating schools, strengthened the hiring pipeline, and advanced the collective mission of improving instructional quality, enhancing workforce stability, and positively influencing student outcomes across Greater New Orleans charter schools.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 63.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 13 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $78K reported
  • Consistency: 25 of 27 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.