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CAJUN NAVY 2016

CAJUN NAVY 2016 (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $745,578 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($325,769). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$746k
Net assets
$1.6M
4/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Cajun Navy 2016 does

Mission

The purpose of the Cajun Navy 2016 is to provide water rescue, medical triage and supply distribution during and after natural disasters utilizing a team of volunteers to assist in providing these services.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.

Program

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    $140,281 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,281.

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 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 117 ($97k) Expenses 233 ($91k) Net assets 112 ($49k)2019 Revenue 88 ($73k) Expenses 207 ($81k) Net assets 93 ($41k)2020 Revenue 202 ($167k) Expenses 368 ($144k) Net assets 145 ($64k)2021 Revenue 219 ($182k) Expenses 334 ($131k) Net assets 261 ($114k)2022 Revenue 142 ($118k) Expenses 286 ($112k) Net assets 274 ($120k)2023 Revenue 65 ($53k) Expenses 230 ($90k) Net assets 191 ($83k)2024 Revenue 2399 ($2.0M) Expenses 1175 ($460k) Net assets 3686 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (2399)Expenses (1175)Net assets (3686)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 2023 to 2024, from $84k to $1.6M (+1832%).

$44k
$53k
$41k
$65k
$114k
$120k
$84k
$1.6M
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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

100% of CAJUN NAVY 2016’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 852 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$5k
’18
−$9k
’19
$23k
’20
$51k
’21
$6k
’22
−$37k
’23
$1.5M
’24
39
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $354.

12 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CAJUN NAVY 2016’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

CAJUN NAVY 2016 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 CAJUN NAVY 2016.

44%
largest funder
58%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 79% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

20% of CAJUN NAVY 2016's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 16% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

72% of CAJUN NAVY 2016's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $211k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 8 states.

NY
RI
CA
DE
TN
NC
LA
TX

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

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’22
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

CAJUN NAVY 2016 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin77% · top quartile
Months of reserve39.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CAJUN NAVY 2016

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

30% of spending goes to programs.

Program 30%Management 70%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAJUN NAVY 2016?
CAJUN NAVY 2016 (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $745,578 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($325,769). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAJUN NAVY 2016 have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $745,578 in grants to CAJUN NAVY 2016, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAJUN NAVY 2016?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $325,769 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAJUN NAVY 2016 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 25 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