Louisiana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK
FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,350,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $698k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $392k
What Friends of Joe Brown Park does
Mission
This is a community base organization that promotes community involvement in all types of activities for the community including health fairs, heart walks and other functions to promote the well being of the neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
This organization promotes economic developement and community enhancement.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
0% of FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 JOE BROWN PARK’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 JOE BROWN PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK
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In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK?
- FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,350,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,360,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF JOE BROWN PARK 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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