Louisiana · Nonprofit
LAFOURCHE ARC
LAFOURCHE ARC (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,411 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($21,330). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Lafourche Arc does
Mission
Habilitation, care and housing of mentally handicapped citizens
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community support services provides short-term respite care and supervised independent living costs to mentally handicapped individuals within the region
$5,723,810 spent$6,981,605 earned by the program52% of program spendingResidential services houses workshop participants with varying degrees of independence. There are six community group homes in this program
$2,511,227 spent$2,714,426 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe adult workshop program trains developmentally disabled individuals in lafourche parish on work and self-care skills
$2,688,177 spent$1,950,169 earned by the program25% of program spendingMiscellaneous program service revenues
$8,169 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,923,214.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $16M (+13%).
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 8% · 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2020 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 12% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of LAFOURCHE ARC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Wendy Eschete
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $63.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 LAFOURCHE ARC’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
LAFOURCHE ARC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 LAFOURCHE ARC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of LAFOURCHE ARC'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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
LAFOURCHE ARC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LAFOURCHE ARC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 LAFOURCHE ARC: 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 LAFOURCHE ARC?
- LAFOURCHE ARC (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,411 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($21,330). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAFOURCHE ARC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $43,411 in grants to LAFOURCHE ARC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAFOURCHE ARC?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAFOURCHE ARC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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