Louisiana · Nonprofit
LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK
LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,927,985 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ($734,472). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $658k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $205k
What Louisiana Environmental Action Network does
Mission
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION/ADVOCACY/PROTECTION The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is to foster cooperation and communication between individual citizens and corporate and government organizations in an effort to assess and mend the environmental problems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education Program - To support and educate environmental groups with an emphasis on low income and minority groups. To provide a monthly publication of current events to the Louisiana environmental community.
$270,265 spent45% of program spendingWater Quality Program - To provide technical assistance to citizens with water quality problems and concerns. Coastal protection and preservation of waterways.
$64,727 spent11% of program spendingDirect Relief - Community Empowerment - To provide technical/ organization assistance to individuals/ communities facing environmental challenges.
$4,000 spent1% of program spendingOther Program Services
$268,103 spent44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $607,095.
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 2019 to 2020, from $258k to $360k (+39%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 51% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Mary Lee Orr
Exec dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $4k → $337k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK’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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 33% · 2022 49% · 2023 72% — 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
15% of LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK draws 100% 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. $253k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$600k
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 LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK: 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK?
- LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,927,985 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ($734,472). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,927,985 in grants to LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK?
- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES is the largest funder on record, with $734,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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