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Louisiana Leadership Institute

Louisiana Leadership Institute (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,350 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR WOMANS ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$7.4M
0/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Louisiana Leadership Institute does

Mission

The mission of the Louisiana Leadership Institute is to be a non-profit organization that provides programs and services to build leadership, improve academic skills and increase self esteem and motivation in the Greater Baton Rouge Metro Area Students. The Institute's aim is to create leaders for the 21st century by exposing students to educational, cultural and recreational activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide opportunities for students to develop leadership skills, improve academics, heighten self-esteem and instill motivation and a strong work ethic to provide the opportunity to participate in a professional internship, to encourage strong work ethic, exposure to work places, and meet prospective employers. To provide opportunities to improve academic strenth. To provide the opportunity to develop and improve computer, employment and academic skills.

    $1,755,997 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. To provide opportunities for students to develop leadership skills, improve academics, heighten self-esteem and instill motivation and a strong work ethic to provide the opportunity to participate in a professional internship, to encourage strong work ethic, exposure to work places, and meet prospective employers. To provide opportunities to improve academic strenth. To provide the opportunity to develop and improve computer, employment and academic skills.

    $124,497 spent
    7% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,880,494.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($273k) Net assets 100 ($4.8M)2019 Revenue 112 ($112k) Expenses 104 ($283k) Net assets 96 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 183 ($181k) Expenses 135 ($368k) Net assets 93 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 1516 ($1.5M) Expenses 138 ($377k) Net assets 116 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 2104 ($2.1M) Expenses 439 ($1.2M) Net assets 132 ($6.3M)2023 Revenue 5668 ($5.6M) Expenses 584 ($1.6M) Net assets 217 ($10M)2024 Revenue 1960 ($1.9M) Expenses 764 ($2.1M) Net assets 152 ($7.3M)2025 Revenue 2554 ($2.5M) Expenses 720 ($2.0M) Net assets 153 ($7.4M)
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Revenue (2554)Expenses (720)Net assets (153)Peer revenue range

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 $7.2M to $12M (+64%).

$5.5M
$5.3M
$5.2M
$6.3M
$7.2M
$12M
$11M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 33% · 2022 48% · 2023 24% · 2024 61% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of Louisiana Leadership Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$174k
’18
−$172k
’19
−$186k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$890k
’22
$4.0M
’23
−$139k
’24
$569k
’25
28
months of
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.

Board chair

Tracie Woods Esq

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed99999999
Joined·+0+0+0+9+0+0+2
No longer listed·0009002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $75k → $1.0M.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Leadership Institute’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 Leadership Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Louisiana Leadership Institute.

90%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

98% of Louisiana Leadership Institute's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

NC
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Louisiana Leadership Institute runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve28.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)59% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Louisiana Leadership Institute

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
144%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Louisiana Leadership Institute?
Louisiana Leadership Institute (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,350 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR WOMANS ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Louisiana Leadership Institute have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,116,350 in grants to Louisiana Leadership Institute.
Who is the largest funder of Louisiana Leadership Institute?
FOUNDATION FOR WOMANS is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Louisiana Leadership Institute 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 2018–2025), 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