Louisiana · Nonprofit
FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL
FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,715 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $433k
- Net assets
- $145k
What First People's Conservation Council does
Mission
The first peoples conservation council (fpcc) of louisiana is an association formed to provide a forum for native american tribes in coastal louisiana to identify and solve natural resource issues on their tribal lands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
F.p.c.c. Workshopannually, First People's Conservation Council hosts this workshop attended by six (6) louisiana tribal communities and at least 1 or more visiting members from other tribal nations. We gather in fellowship and solidarity as tribal peoples. The workshop is attended by tribal members ranging from elders to youths, and every age in between. We acknowledge that we are part of and must live and navigate in the much larger world around us; (a world that often is unaccepting of our resistance to become assimilated into the larger generic populous) however, our way is not to separate ourselves to the exclusion of all others, but to celebrate who we are, as the first peoples of the land. We come together in respect of the earth and honoring the wisdoms of our ancestors. At this workshop we discuss local community issues and global issues as well; working for three days to find solutions. Here, we create tribal artworks (hiding, painting, weaving, beading). We drum and sing and dance, all these activities are fun, but the larger goals are being achievedwe are teaching our young to appreciate their culture and embrace their heritage two things very necessary to the viability…
$234,673 spent$172,455 earned by the program100% of program spendingYouth travel retreats...youth retreats are very exciting and fun-filled with cultural teachings (see letters from youth events(fpcclouisiana.org) the retreats not only introduces our young people to other people and environments, it also provides them the opportunity to develop leadership skill that will serve themselves and the tribes as they mature and take their place of leadership in the future. The future will someday be in the hands of those who enjoy the benefits of being young today, as they interact with others and gain a more complete understanding of this planet's diversities (environmental, cultural etc.) they are being educated through their travels and experiences to be visionary in their future position of leadership and lifeways; so their decisions and choices will be made from informed, first-hand and inclusive knowledge.
Food sovereignty through the development of the green house learning center has been in the works for two years and will provide a safe space for propagating medicinal and sacred plants at risk due to climate change and water intrusion.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $234,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $203k to $80k (−60%).
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 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $50k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL’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
FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 45% · 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
0% of FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 0% 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
FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k 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
FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL?
- FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,715 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $432,715 in grants to FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST PEOPLE'S CONSERVATION COUNCIL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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