Louisiana · Nonprofit
EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC
EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,589,800 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Easter Seals Louisiana Inc does
Mission
To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
System point of entry (spoe) program provides services in ldh regions 1 and 8 to families with infants and toddlers aged birth to three years (36 months) who have a medical condition likely to result in a developmental delay, or who have developmental delays.
$1,265,238 spent$1,235,238 earned by the program8% of program spendingCase management (all regions) - assists disabled children, adults and the elderly in accessing needed services to increase their independence.
$6,395,643 spent$8,539,703 earned by the program42% of program spendingMental health services (all regions) - provides goal-directed support and solution focused interventions which are intended to assist persons suffering with mental illness achieve individual objectives.
$1,512,038 spent$1,803,810 earned by the program10% of program spendingHousing services - provides long term permanent housing based upon the housing first model which is predicated upon the concept of providing housing and then providing services to the client to support them in maintaining long term housing. Easter seals louisiana merged with the chartwell consortium special education assistance and development center ("chartwell"). Chartwell runs an instructional group for childen with social, communication, and sensory integration issues and maintains a special education assistance and development center for the youth in the new orleans area. Direct services - helping people with disabilities achieve maximum independence, promoting advocacy, technology assistance, employment opportunities and support for family and friends.residential (all regions) - provides a safe and comfortable environment to people with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders with the ultimate goal being independent living.
$4,730,061 spentof which $541,806 as grants$3,745,393 earned by the program31% of program spendingApplied behavioral analysis services and tuition - implements applied behavior analysis by working to increase functional communication, adaptive behaviors, and social skills, while reducing challenging behaviors, to make a life of independence and purpose possible for children and adults with autism.
$1,337,680 spent$1,152,879 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,240,660.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $12M (+99%).
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: 2017 35% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 20% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Tracy Garner
President/CEO
Board chair
Michael Kelly
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $62k → $45k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC’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
EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 55% · 2019 99% · 2020 60% · 2021 98% · 2022 62% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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 EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
93% of EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC'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 $371k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M 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.
Government funding EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$12.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$490k
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 EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC?
- EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,589,800 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $5,589,800 in grants to EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEALS LOUISIANA INC 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing