Louisiana · Nonprofit
GLASSROOTS
GLASSROOTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,090,685 to it, the largest being ARLENE & JOSEPH MERAUX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $152k
What Glassroots does
Mission
Glassroots is a recycling and environmental stewardship non-profit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free glass recycling drop-offs - since its founding in 2021, Glassroots has increased the number of free glass recycling drop-off locations in greater new orleans and baton rouge, la.
$0 spentEnvironmental education - Glassroots has hosted numerous school visits, group volunteering opportunities, and community events.
$0 spentDisaster resilience projects - Glassroots has contributed to multiple large-scale coastal restoration projects in southeast louisiana and have led green infrastructure projects including implementing storm drain filters, rain gardens, french drains, and distributing flood prevention sandbags.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $99k to $152k (+55%).
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.
100% of GLASSROOTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Colin Felsman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $29k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 GLASSROOTS’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
GLASSROOTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of GLASSROOTS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
GLASSROOTS 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 GLASSROOTS
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLASSROOTS: 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 GLASSROOTS?
- GLASSROOTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,090,685 to it, the largest being ARLENE & JOSEPH MERAUX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLASSROOTS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,090,685 in grants to GLASSROOTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLASSROOTS?
- ARLENE & JOSEPH MERAUX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLASSROOTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 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