Louisiana · Nonprofit
For A Better Bayou
For A Better Bayou (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $270k
What For A Better Bayou does
Mission
To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For a Better Bayou conducted outreach to local elected leaders churches schools and community spaces to inform them of the organizations goal to educate the public on environmental and health issues related to industrial operations and to build partnerships to do this work together. Staff organized community events and meetings and distributed information about the impacts of continued industrial buildout.
$201,382 spentof which $2,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $201,382.
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
James Hiatt
Executive Director
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.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 For A Better Bayou’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
For A Better Bayou leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
95% 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 For A Better Bayou.
“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
For A Better Bayou draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
For A Better Bayou runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like For A Better Bayou
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for For A Better Bayou: 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 For A Better Bayou?
- For A Better Bayou (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does For A Better Bayou have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $285,000 in grants to For A Better Bayou.
- Who is the largest funder of For A Better Bayou?
- EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like For A Better Bayou 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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