Louisiana · Nonprofit
LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC
LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,131,374 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($450,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $508k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Leona Tate Foundation for Change Inc does
Mission
The leona tate foundation's mission is to promote, improve, and enhance racial equality through various avenues of education. To empower and enrich our communities from a spiritual, multicultural, economical, historical, and social perspective.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TEP Tours Description of the accomplishments - In 2024, the LTFC staff welcomed 737 adults to the TEP Center, participating in a Tour of the former McDonogh 19 Elementary School (current TEP Interpretive Center), including the principal's office, the McDonogh 3's 1st grade classroom, historical markers, the LA Civil Rights Train marker, and the newly installed B. Mike mural. Measurements- 737 adults toured the TEP Center in 2024NEW - Three new part-time docents were hired/trained in 2024. This addition to our staff enabled us to welcome hundreds of additional adults to the TEP center in 2024. Narrative - Visitors step into the time/place of desegregation, experiencing desegregation history & seeing themselves inside history.
$157,275 spent46% of program spendingStoryteller's Experience Description of the accomplishments - LTFC partnered with 20+ New Orleans area schools during the 2023/2024 school year Measurements - 1300 students visited the TEP Center in 2024, including 400 students who joined LTFC for the 64th Anniversary of Public School Desegregation "18 Steps: a Journey to Justice in Education" stage production, bringing desegregation history to life. NEW - LTFC partnered with 13 new schools in 2024 to schedule field trips, participate in anti-racism conversations & meet Civil Rights icon, Dr. Leona Tate Narrative - LTFC invites classes from the NOLA area to travel to the TEP Center to walk in the 3 young girls' shoes, participate in anti-racism conversations & tell their own stories in connection to history.
$92,414 spent27% of program spendingTEP Talk Description of the Accomplishments - Through the publication of 4 different TEP Talk programs, LTFC has reached over 300 people with unique discussions connecting the Civil Rights Movement to current Social Justice concerns. Measurements - LTFC welcomed 25 people to participate in TEP Center TEP Talks in 2024. NEW - The TEP Center Program Director included an annual TEP Talk as a part of the Anniversary Week Activities, celebrating a different aspect of the Civil Rights Movement & tying it into current events. Narrative - TEP Talks is a forum highlighting untold stories of the Civil Rights Movement in NOLA, connecting them to present justice issues.
$2,520 spent1% of program spendingRinging the Bell Description of the Accomplishments -As a part of the first Ringing the Bell cohort, Frederick Douglass Teachers & LTFC program director worked on a lesson to be taught to the entire student body. The lesson built upon New Orleans history, connecting Mardi Gras history & tradition to the larger New Orleans society. The lesson that was created touched on the history of desegregation in the Krewes, the history of Mardi Gras celebrations in general and what is the impact of parading through communities. Ultimately this lesson was taught to nearly 700 high school aged students. Measurements - 700 students, 6 teachers and 2 administrators participated in the Ringing the Bell Program in the Fall of 2024. Narrative - "Ringing the Bell" is a professional development program for teachers, instructing them on best practices for including civil rights lessons into their core curriculum. The goal is to undo racist educational systems, increase teacher retention & experience growth in student outcomes.
$92,414 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,623.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $24M to $4.1M (−83%).
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: 2020 44% · 2021 64% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Leona Tate
Executive director
Board chair
Caroline Heldman
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $121k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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
LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 74% · 2022 67% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE 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
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Tep Leverage Lender · disregarded
- TEP Leverage Lender · exempt
- TEP Manager LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC?
- LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,131,374 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($450,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,131,374 in grants to LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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