Louisiana · Nonprofit
GLADEWAVES INC
GLADEWAVES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,300 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($38,404). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $-4502
What Gladewaves Inc does
Mission
To provide resources to people in need around the greater new orleans area in order to ensure productive lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The senior outreach program provides a free, hot, fully balanced and nutritious meal to 250 senior citizens at seven locations per month in the metro new orleans area. Each luncheon also includes a guest speaker and a take home meal. Our current locations are: greater good hope baptist church, norco, la, gates of prayer synagogue, metairie, la, new home baptist ministries, central city new orleans, la, new home baptist ministries new orleans east, la, the dominican peace center, gert town new orleans, la, st. Philip's episcopal church, lower algiers, la, and kindship house senior community center, new orleans, la. The program runs from september june. These luncheons directly impact the disproportionate number of senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity in the metro new orleans area as well addresses the issue of loneliness in the senior community.
$12,639 spent24% of program spendingThe big red box program builds food pantries near small neighborhood churches and works with these churches and their congregations to provide food to at risk communities. The program provides food for each pantry it builds twice a week for three months. The ultimate goal of gladewaves is to have each pantry supported fully by the community in which it stands. This program places 175,000 meals per year in the metro new orleans area.
$22,492 spent42% of program spendingThe holiday meal program takes place on the thursday before christmas eve. Gladewaves, with the help of over 60 volunteers, purchases, packages and delivers 500 turkeys and bags of groceries, which contain enough food to feed a family of six three meals. The turkeys and groceries are delivered to eight locations throughout the metro new orleans area and provide 9,000 meals to the community during the holiday season. The thanksgiving meal program provides 250 hot meals, 250 backpacks filled with personal hygiene items and 200 gently used, professionally cleaned winter coats to the community on the sunday before thanksgiving. This event takes place at new home baptist ministries located on robert c. Blakes blvd. In the central city neighborhood of new orleans.
$18,171 spent34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,302.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6k to $47k (+709%).
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.
98% of GLADEWAVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Janie Fazende Glade
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Louis B Glade
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $27.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 GLADEWAVES 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
GLADEWAVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 GLADEWAVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 63% · 2021 76% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of GLADEWAVES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GLADEWAVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GLADEWAVES INC
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.
Public support
99%
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 GLADEWAVES INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GLADEWAVES INC?
- GLADEWAVES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,300 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($38,404). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLADEWAVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $61,300 in grants to GLADEWAVES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLADEWAVES INC?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLADEWAVES 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.
Play a game about who funds Gladewaves →
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 7 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