Louisiana · Nonprofit
SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION
SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,389,467 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ($1,254,945). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $620k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Shreveport Bar Foundation does
Mission
The Shreveport Bar Foundation (sbf) provides charitable legal assistance & educational activities to the public and operates a pro bono project providing free civil legal assistance to low income clients at or below the federal poverty income level in areas of family law, domestic protective orders, successions, & other miscellaneous civil legal matters.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sbf provides pro bono assistance in civil matters to persons at or below the federal poverty income level. Related activities include free civil legal assistance to these clients in the areas of family law, domestic violence protective orders, successions, & uncontested divorces; a free ask-a-lawyer clinic each month at the shreveport bar center, a building owned and operated by sbf; a pro se library that is available to the public for a safe and private environment to research legal issues with the assistance of sbf staff. In addition, sbf operates in partnership with caddo parish juvenile court and first judicial district court, legal aid of north la, northwest la family justice center and project celebration inc. To accept referrals for representation of their clients for cases involving successions, uncontested divorces and domestic violence protective orders for the caddo, bossier and other parishes in northwest la. Sbf regularly networks with shreveport-bossier rescue mission, bossier parish domestic violence task force, salvation army and caddo parish victims assistance program.in 2021, a total of 45 volunteer attorneys donated 660 hours of legal services to assist 825…
$472,806 spentof which $1,500 as grants$11,120 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe bar center building is owned and operated by sbf, and serves as headquarters for the shreveport bar association, the Shreveport Bar Foundation and its pro bono project. This allows for coordinated efforts in support of the Shreveport Bar Foundation outreach programs and legal education programs. The building provides space for sbf to increase public understanding of the legal system of justice by implementing programs that enchance the legal profession and its contribution to society. The bar center serves as a permanent legal hub in downtown shreveport serving members of the public and the legal community. The building is located at 625 texas st., shreveport, la.
$73,019 spent$82,342 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $545,825.
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.
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 $1.5M to $1.3M (−11%).
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: 2023 70% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $102k → $256k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION’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
SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 38% · 2019 39% · 2020 29% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 50% — 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
83% of SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like SHREVEPORT BAR 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION?
- SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,389,467 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ($1,254,945). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,389,467 in grants to SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION?
- LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,254,945 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHREVEPORT BAR 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.
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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 8 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