Louisiana · Nonprofit
BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,605 to it, the largest being BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ($359,100). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $875k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $657k
What Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance does
Mission
To build a strong and healthy local food system; to increase sustainability of independent local farmers, fishers, and food producers; and to foster stewardship of land and community through public markets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing assistance to set up and operate farmer's market for small family farmers; assistance to farmers in developing relationships with stores and restaurants.
$124,521 spent22% of program spendingOversight and management of publicly owned market structure that serves as microenterprise incubator for small-scale food and agricultural based businesses. Offer business development assistance, public education concerning farming and agricultural.
$401,861 spentof which $83,027 as grants$81,120 earned by the program71% of program spendingDevelopment of community education on advantages of buying and eating fresh produce. Development of programs to increase food access in underserved areas.
$39,620 spent7% of program spendingThe balance consists mostly of annual dues and sales of produce.
$5,020 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $566,002.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $751k to $1.3M (+73%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 35% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christy D Rowland
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $24k → $324k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 91% · 2019 56% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $711k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$711k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,605 to it, the largest being BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ($359,100). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,144,605 in grants to BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $359,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing