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BREC FOUNDATION

BREC FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,473 to it, the largest being BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF LOUISIANA FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$363k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$582k
Net assets
$1.0M
5/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%
01What it does

What Brec Foundation does

Mission

The mission of Brec Foundation is to raise funds for parks and recreation to benefit the health, welfare, and culture for all citizens and visitors of east baton rouge parish. We act as good stewards of funds entrusted to us by our donors and abide by their wishes and directives. We facilitate and support innovation, sound corporate governance, and the development of meaningful partnerships to further our mission and provide opportunities to our members.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided funds to the recreational and parks commission of the parish of east baton rouge for various other programs and facilities at brec.

    $333,392 spentof which $245,660 as grants$45,406 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $333,392.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($549k) Expenses 100 ($645k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 54 ($294k) Expenses 75 ($485k) Net assets 84 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 84 ($459k) Expenses 77 ($495k) Net assets 72 ($899k)2020 Revenue 38 ($208k) Expenses 36 ($235k) Net assets 71 ($878k)2021 Revenue 63 ($347k) Expenses 46 ($295k) Net assets 75 ($930k)2022 Revenue 81 ($444k) Expenses 82 ($527k) Net assets 66 ($825k)2023 Revenue 106 ($584k) Expenses 57 ($368k) Net assets 85 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 66 ($363k) Expenses 60 ($386k) Net assets 84 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (66)Expenses (60)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $960k to $1.2M (+23%).

$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$960k
$1.2M
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 31% · 2023 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of BREC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$96k
’17
−$190k
’18
−$37k
’19
−$27k
’20
$52k
’21
−$83k
’22
$216k
’23
−$23k
’24
29
months of
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

Carl Stages

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2828262727312224
Joined·+5+8+6+6+9+0+7
No longer listed·51056595
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $43k → $221k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BREC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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

BREC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

60% 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 BREC FOUNDATION.

17%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 32% · 2019 52% · 2020 83% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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

25% of BREC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of BREC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

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OH
CA
MO
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LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BREC FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve28.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like BREC FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (Brec) · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREC FOUNDATION?
BREC FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,473 to it, the largest being BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF LOUISIANA FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $582,473 in grants to BREC FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREC FOUNDATION?
BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF LOUISIANA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREC FOUNDATION 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.

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 18 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