Louisiana · Nonprofit
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,519,838 to it, the largest being SHERRILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($580,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Pro Bono Publico Foundation does
Mission
To enhance the quality of life in greater new orleans area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support, through receipt and distribution of donations, grants, in-kind contributions, and manpower, any entity, organization or purpose that enhances the quality of life in the greater new orleans metropolitan area.
$1,289,002 spentof which $1,119,300 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,289,002.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+15%).
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.
95% of PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
J Storey Charbonnet
Chairman/secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $113k → $458k.
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
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.
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 65% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PRO BONO PUBLICO 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 $2,519,838 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 $2,519,838 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 43 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