Louisiana · Nonprofit
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,503 to it, the largest being CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ($132,116). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $564k
What Families Helping Families of Greater Baton Rouge does
Mission
To provide the individualized services, information, and support needed to positively enhance the independence, productivity, and integration of persons with disabilities into the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Office of Behavioral Health (OBH)-Provides families and youth with education, skills, and resources to increase and strengthen their ability to function successfully in their homes and communities; provide opportunities to increase advocacy skills, and empower families to inform children's behavioral health polices, practices and services in Louisiana; and provide education to increase the knowledge of family members and professionals.
$164,895 spent$215,126 earned by the program31% of program spendingDevelopmental Disabilities Council (DDC) - Provides administrative and related functions of the organization
$86,075 spent$115,391 earned by the program16% of program spendingState Department of Education (SDE) - Provides training, education and empowerment to families of children with disabilities through workshops, presentations, and one on one support to develop an individualized education/transition plan to help students learn in an inclusive environment to ensure full and valued membership in the community
$89,016 spent$60,083 earned by the program17% of program spendingCAHSD - Provides information and referrals to persons with developmental disabilities and their families through workshops, presentation, peer to peer support, and one on one support.CSHS - Provides information and referrals, education, training, and one on one support to families enrolled in Children's Special Health Services.OCDD - Provides quality services and support, information, and opportunities for people of LA with developmental disabilities and their families.Resource Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders (RCASD) - A comprehensive source of information for families with members who have autism spectrum disorder. RACSD offers one-on-one support, family-oriented education, referrals and various communication software assisting children with social and verbal communication.
$194,847 spent$141,404 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $534,833.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $707k to $829k (+17%).
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 13% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dr Marilyn Thornton
Executive Director
Board chair
Jimmie Smith
Chairperson/Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $63.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE’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
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 53% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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.
Against its field
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE's revenue grew 60% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE?
- FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,503 to it, the largest being CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ($132,116). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $219,503 in grants to FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE?
- CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $132,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE 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 6 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