Louisiana · Nonprofit
COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA
COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being WILLIAM EDWIN MONTAN CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $0
What Council for a Better Louisiana does
Mission
Promote ideas for the betterment of louisiana that cut across poltical, social, and ideological boundaries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership louisiana: this program run by the organization is a one year program in which individuals participate in six two day sessions, scheduled approximately every other month. Major session topics include education and workforce training, the economy and stratergies for growth, history and politics, news media, arts and culture, criminal justice, healthcare, and poverty.
Investment expenses
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $260k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Thomas Barry Erwin
CEO
Board chair
Heather Poole
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA’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.
Where its funders are
100% of COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA?
- COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being WILLIAM EDWIN MONTAN CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA?
- WILLIAM EDWIN MONTAN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA 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 1 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