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PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION

PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,848 to it, the largest being SHERRILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($580,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.5M
Revenue FY2025
43
Funders on record
$2.5M
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
31/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve12.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($962k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 102 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 102 ($1.1M) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 106 ($1.0M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 108 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 128 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 121 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.0M) Expenses 154 ($1.6M) Net assets 85 ($953k)2023 Revenue 148 ($1.4M) Expenses 126 ($1.3M) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 136 ($1.3M) Expenses 137 ($1.4M) Net assets 108 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 157 ($1.5M) Expenses 126 ($1.3M) Net assets 127 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (126)Net assets (127)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 856 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$68k
’17
$17k
’18
$127k
’19
−$65k
’20
$149k
’21
−$550k
’22
$125k
’23
−$104k
’24
$210k
’25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $113k → $458k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
12
10
14
25
22
21
22
17
6

9 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $501k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater New Orleans Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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

PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

23%
largest funder
51%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 58% · 2019 25% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 22% — 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

63% of PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 7 states in all.

NY
MA
OR
NC
LA
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Louisiana

Northshore Community Foundation75%Shreveport Bar Foundation74%Baton Rouge Area Foundation74%The Pro Bono Project74%Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Inc74%Nola Business Alliance74%Baton Rouge Bar Foundation73%Forward Together New Orleans73%

Nationally

Pro Bono Partnership Inc75%Northshore Community Foundation75%Pro Bono Net Inc74%Shreveport Bar Foundation74%Baton Rouge Area Foundation74%The Pro Bono Project74%The Meg and Bennett Goodman Family Foundation74%Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Inc74%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • School of Design · exempt
  • Crescent City Carnival Museum Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRO BONO PUBLICO 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 PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION?
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,848 to it, the largest being SHERRILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($580,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,502,848 in grants to PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION?
SHERRILL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRO BONO PUBLICO 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 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing