South Louisiana Charter Academy Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460656134
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2259999999
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,542,470
- Expenses
- $23,197,259
- Assets
- $18,473,570
- Liabilities
- $21,798,504
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN PIERRE (PRESIDENT)
- EDMOND JORDAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN PIERRE (PRESIDENT)
- EDMOND JORDAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ACHILLES WILLIAMS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This nonprofit corporation is organized & shall be operated exclusively for the following purposes: improve pupil learning &, in general, the public school system; increase learning opportunities & access to quality education for pupils; increase learning opportunity choices for parents & students; encourage the use of different & innovative teaching methods and a variety of governance, management, & administrative structures; require appropriate assessment & measurement of academic learning results; account better & more thoroughly for educational results; create new professional opportunities for teachers and other school employees, including the opportunity to be responsible for the learning program at the school site; provide competition within the public school system in order to stimulate continued improvement in all public schools; to provide a strong educational environment based upon the charter school structure to effectively & efficiently educate students in south la.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation operates south baton rouge charter academy, a tuition-free public charter school that will educate elementary and middle school students in east baton rouge parish, Louisiana.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.18; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $17.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $15.2M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.