Louisiana Kids Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 800591500
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2012–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
Location: Westwego, LA, USA
Rating: 58
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue: $12,073
Expenses: $14,922
Assets: $61,212

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

NEIL BERNARD (President)
ALEXA HERNANDEZ (Vice President)

People named in this filing

NEIL BERNARD (President)
ALEXA HERNANDEZ (Vice President)
BRITTNEY MILLET (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide educational and entertainment opportunities, as well as scholarships for trade and college to children while using the performing arts as the vehicle to achieve these goals.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide scholarships to participants and produced one show during the tax year

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 44
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 40
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 46.6%; rating input score 47
Program expense ratio: 37.7%; rating input score 38

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -23.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.1; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 46.6% of revenue deployed · 37.7% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.