Louisiana · Nonprofit
MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS
MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,043 to it, the largest being GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Mystic Krewe of Barkus does
Mission
Barkus is organized to raise awareness for humane treatment of animals spaying and neutering of pets, homeless animals and working/rescue dogs. Barkus conducts activities to raise public awareness and makes grants to organizations that prevent cruelty to animals, search and rescue animals stranded in natural disasters, promote and perform speying and neutering of animals, assist in adoption of animals, provide shelter for animals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conduct an annual parade and ball in the first quarter of the year for dogs and dog owners to raise awareness for humane treatment of animals.
$81,824 spent$118,558 earned by the program67% of program spendingGrants to humane societies, animal rescue organizations, speying and neutering organizations and related organizations. No grant to any one organization exceeded $5,000 during 2024.
$40,750 spentof which $40,750 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,574.
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 2021 to 2022, from $51k to $80k (+58%).
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.
0% of MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $22.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS’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
MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 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.
Against its field
MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS: 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 MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS?
- MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,043 to it, the largest being GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,043 in grants to MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS?
- GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MYSTIC KREWE OF BARKUS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing