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GU272 Descendants Association

GU272 Descendants Association (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,000 to it, the largest being DESCENDANTS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOUNDATION ($63,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$88k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$126k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What GU272 Descendants Association does

Mission

The Association?s mission is to support the goals, objectives and aspirations of all Descendants of the GU272, and further to represent the same interest of all other descendants of people enslaved before and after 1838 by the Jesuits of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. The Association shall be, without limitation, an instrument and voice to pursue and address the mutual interest of all descendants through membership recruitment, financial support, public relations, community outreach, talent development, loyalty building, and demonstrated dedication and commitment to the legacy of the GU272 - Jesuit Diaspora.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. GU272 is dedicated to preserving the memory, commemorating the lives, and restoring the honor of the GU272 enslaved people sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits in 1838 and those who were enslaved before, during, and after the sale by the Society of Jesus.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($80k)2023 Revenue 117 ($97k) Expenses 527 ($55k) Net assets 149 ($119k)2024 Revenue 106 ($88k) Expenses 739 ($77k) Net assets 158 ($126k)
202220232024
Revenue (106)Expenses (739)Net assets (158)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $80k to $119k (+49%).

$80k
$119k
$126k
202220232024
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’22
$42k
’23
$11k
’24
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 GU272 Descendants Association’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.

Where its funders are

100% of GU272 Descendants Association's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

LA

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

Organizations like GU272 Descendants Association

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

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GU272 Descendants Association: 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 GU272 Descendants Association?
GU272 Descendants Association (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,000 to it, the largest being DESCENDANTS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOUNDATION ($63,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GU272 Descendants Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $63,000 in grants to GU272 Descendants Association.
Who is the largest funder of GU272 Descendants Association?
DESCENDANTS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GU272 Descendants Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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