Louisiana · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC
INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,120 to it, the largest being WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER ($293,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Independence Bowl Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization serves amateur athletics in the shreveport-bossier city la area through support and promotion of such events with membership volunteers. The organization sponsors the annual independence bowl football game.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The organization serves amateur athletics in the shreveport-bossier city la area through support and promotion of such events with membership and volunteers.
$2,231,428 spent$3,654,735 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,231,428.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.2M (+63%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% · 2024 16% · 2025 16% · 2026 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Missy Setters
Executive director
Board chair
Sarah Giglio
Board chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $60k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $140k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION 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
INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 90% · 2021 97% · 2022 86% · 2023 90% — broadly stable.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 41 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 41 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION 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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
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 INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC?
- INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,120 to it, the largest being WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER ($293,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $344,120 in grants to INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC?
- WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $293,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 9 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