Louisiana · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,827,878 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($9,448,366). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $55M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Foundation for Louisiana does
Mission
Foundation for Louisiana is the people's foundation. We expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe, (continued on schedule o) stable, connected, and dignified life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Foundation for Louisiana was born in 2005 in the tumultuous days following hurricanes katrina and rita. Founded as the louisiana diaster recovery foundation, our initial work was to invest in and support the immediate recovery of louisiana's communities following the storms. Our founders knew that a full and responsible recovery would entail far more than rebuilding what was lost. It would require addressing the many ways that longstanding disparities have been woven into the fabric of life for too many in our state. Our programs are rooted in the belief that communities across louisiana have the strength and leadership to shape their own futures. Our focus areas support the conditions that help that future become real. Our work deepenns community wellbeing, nurtures meaningful (continued on sch o) opportunities for more louisianans, supports local leadership, and cultivates the conditions where dignity, health, and the creativity that makes our state unique can thrive. We call this freedom work, and we are proud to support it statewide. Ffl focuses on racial justice, climate justice, criminal justice reform, and transformaion, economic justice, gender justice, and support for…
$4,277,089 spentof which $2,080,063 as grants$446,276 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,277,089.
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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $17M (+24%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (70% 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.
Board chair
Michelle Ramos
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $5.4M → $7.4M.
24 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 funders by total. 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
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
38% 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 FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 12% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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
35% of FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $356k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$356k
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 FOUNDATION FOR 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: 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 FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA?
- FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,827,878 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($9,448,366). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $54,827,878 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,448,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR 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.
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 115 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