Louisiana · Nonprofit
LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION
LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,016 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUNDS ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $45M
What Louisiana Bar Foundation does
Mission
The Louisiana Bar Foundation exists to preserve, honor, and improve our system of justice by funding, developing or otherwise promoting efforts which enhance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system and advance the reality of equal justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Iolta program - interest on lawyer trust account:the iolta program was created by the louisiana supreme court and is administered by the lbf. Iolta generates interest that helps finance civil legal services for the poor. The interest is granted annually by the lbf to louisiana's legal service providers, pro bono programs, and other community organizations that provide civil legal aid to louisiana's poor.
$12,105,174 spentof which $9,742,518 as grants$23,604,964 earned by the program70% of program spendingDepartment of the treasury, state of louisiana cooperative endeavor agreement (cea):the scope of the cea is 1. [to] provide legal representation of children in child protection cases in partnership with legal services corporations, the louisiana department of child and family services, and the louisiana supreme court and; 2. Resolve legal problems of low income people; strengthen communities by servicing special populations including veterans, homeless, disaster survivors, domestic violence victims, and seniors; develop the best public interest law firms possible.
$4,251,519 spentof which $4,251,519 as grants$3,720,853 earned by the program25% of program spendingAdministration for children and families: department of health and human services agreement:the child welfare policy manual allows title iv-e agencies to be reimbursed for the administrative costs of legal representation of child and parents in child welfare cases including independent legal representation by an attorney.
$918,237 spentof which $882,325 as grants$918,237 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,274,930.
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 2023 to 2024, from $24M to $40M (+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: 2020 4% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 3% · 2024 19% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Laura C Sewell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $273.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater New Orleans Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION’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
LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“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
LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION: 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 LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION?
- LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,016 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUNDS ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $24,016 in grants to LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUNDS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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