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FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC

FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,925 to it, the largest being Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$126k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$48k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Friends of Jefferson the Beautiful Inc does

Program

  1. Beautifying the public greenspaces in Jefferson Parish

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($126k)2018 Revenue 76 ($35k) Expenses 75 ($32k) Net assets 103 ($129k)2019 Revenue 69 ($32k) Expenses 107 ($46k) Net assets 92 ($115k)2020 Revenue 14 ($6k) Expenses 94 ($40k) Net assets 65 ($82k)2021 Revenue 111 ($51k) Expenses 77 ($33k) Net assets 80 ($100k)2022 Revenue 99 ($46k) Expenses 137 ($58k) Net assets 70 ($88k)2023 Revenue 60 ($28k) Expenses 130 ($55k) Net assets 48 ($60k)2024 Revenue 83 ($39k) Expenses 117 ($50k) Net assets 39 ($49k)2025 Revenue 271 ($126k) Expenses 298 ($127k) Net assets 38 ($48k)
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Revenue (271)Expenses (298)Net assets (38)Peer revenue range

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 $115k to $82k (−29%).

$126k
$129k
$115k
$82k
$100k
$88k
$60k
$49k
$48k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

18% of FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$3k
’18
−$14k
’19
−$34k
’20
$18k
’21
−$12k
’22
−$27k
’23
−$11k
’24
−$1k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL 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

FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

91% of FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

LA
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC?
FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,925 to it, the largest being Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,925 in grants to FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL INC?
Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON THE BEAUTIFUL 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 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