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DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA

DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,343,549 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.3M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
$2.5M
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Disability Rights Louisiana does

Mission

Disability Rights Louisiana protects and advocates for the human and legal rights of all children, adults and seniors with disabilities. Our work aims to empower the disability community to live an integrated life, free from abuse, neglect and exploitation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community living ombudsmen program (clop): statewide program that monitors private intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled individuals for instances of abuse and neglect. Also assists in moving individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities into the community.

    $1,065,951 spent
    23% of program spending
  2. Protection and advocacy for beneficiaries with representative payees: this program conducts reviews on representative payee performance on behalf of the social security administration (ssa). The program provides oversight to representative payees and their services to beneficiaries as well as giving them support to better understand their role and responsibilities.

    $748,351 spent
    16% of program spending
  3. Protection & advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities (padd): primarily legal work and policy work that is performed on behalf of an individual or group of individuals who have a diagnosis of intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

    $666,842 spent
    14% of program spending
  4. Other program services, including client assistance program (cap), protection & advocacy for individual rights (pair), financial access inclusion and resources (fair), protection & advocacy for beneficiaries of social security (pabss), louisiana department of justice supported independent living advocacy program (silap), work incentives planning & assistance (wipa), protection & advocacy for individuals with mental illness (paimi), protection & advocacy for individuals with traumatic brain injury (patbi), protection & advocacy for assistive technology (paat), protection & advocacy of voter assistance (pava), and interest on lawyer's trust account (iolta) - louisiana bar foundation.

    $2,202,953 spent
    47% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,684,097.

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 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 95 ($3.5M) Expenses 105 ($4.2M) Net assets 67 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 92 ($3.6M) Net assets 77 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 104 ($3.8M) Expenses 93 ($3.7M) Net assets 83 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 111 ($4.0M) Expenses 105 ($4.2M) Net assets 72 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 118 ($4.3M) Expenses 114 ($4.5M) Net assets 62 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 172 ($6.3M) Expenses 114 ($4.5M) Net assets 142 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 119 ($4.3M) Expenses 126 ($5.0M) Net assets 115 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (126)Net assets (115)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 $1.9M to $3.6M (+84%).

$2.4M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$1.9M
$3.6M
$3.0M
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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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 93% · 2019 89% · 2020 85% · 2022 88% · 2023 85% · 2024 57% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$313k
’17
−$715k
’18
$29k
’19
$115k
’20
−$116k
’22
−$225k
’23
$1.8M
’24
−$642k
’25
1.4
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

Ranie Thompson

Executive director

Board chair

Patsy White

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1216201717182216
Joined·+7+5+5·+4+6+4
No longer listed·318·3210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $59k → $391k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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.

How concentrated its funding is

DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

80% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA.

46%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 90% · 2019 63% · 2020 51% · 2021 66% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% — 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

50% of DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

70% of DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

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NJ
CA
DC
LA

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

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Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.6M on record.

Federal$22.6M
grants $22.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$12.0M
  • Social Security Administration$7.3M
  • Department of Education$3.2M

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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

  • Eighth Muse Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA?
DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,343,549 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,343,549 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA?
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing