Louisiana · Nonprofit
TECHE PROJECT
TECHE PROJECT (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,283 to it, the largest being KEEP LOUISIANA BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATIONINC ($10,463). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Teche Project does
Mission
Work to enhance the ecology of the bayou teche watershed. To encourage recreational use of bayou teche by building a first class paddle trail with access docks in all fifteen towns along the bayou. To work with local governments to promote trail based tourism and ecologically sustainable development along the bayou teche corridor
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promoted the culture and history of bayou teche: the Teche Project hosted the 13th annual shake your trail feather paddle parade and festival with over 250 attendees enjoying the live music and paddle excursion. We also hosted our annual membership event "twilight on the teche" in arnaudville at maison stephanie with over 110 attendees. A cultural presentation pertaining to the history of the manor house and the renovation work was given. In 2025, we embarked on a new oral history initiative to gather stories about current and past life experiences. We plan to publish these stories on our website and in other media outlets in the furure. Also in 2025, we partnered with the center for la studies and the william g. Pomeroy foundation to install a "legends and lore" marker about pirate jean lafitte's contraband tunnel under the mt. Carmel academy in new iberia. Each year, we also attend several outreach events with partner groups to share our mission to embrace the cultural values of the bayou teche corridor.
$13,268 spent$16,679 earned by the program99% of program spendingEnhancing the ecology of Bayou Teche: We took part in the spring Love the Boot campaign by cleaning trailhead parks at our dock sites. We also hosted a clean-up day in New Iberia in the spring and periodically pulled trash with boats to account for 61 tons of trash in the past 15 years. We provided guidance to interested parties regarding wood duck nest box management. We have 63 participants in our program to rear ducks along the bayou and are hatching over 750 ducklings annually. Director, Patti Holland spoke on the values of bank-line restoration as a measure to improve water quality to the Vermilion River Water Quality Task Force. We also recorded 10 segments about Bayou Teche flora and fauna for KRVS Public Radio's "Nature in Acadiana" program.
$106 spent$90 earned by the program1% of program spendingEncouraging Recreational Use on Bayou Teche: The Bayou Teche National Paddle Trail infrastructure was completed in 2023, however, we continue our work to add features to improve paddle trail usage into the future. With installation work completed, we have shifted our focus to paddle trail promotion and hosting events to get people on Bayou Teche. In 2025, we worked with parish and state tourism offices to film our annual paddle parade as promotion of the Bayou Teche National Paddle Trail. We continue to promote the national paddle trail on our website via our Paddle Trail Guide for 1 to 3-day excursions and on the national trail finder platform, ALLTrails. In 2025, we worked with a local outfitter, Wanderlust Rentals to get a passive kayak kiosk rental station installed at the New Iberia paddle trail dock site. We also worked with landowners to facilitate more camping opportunities along Bayou Teche. In June 2025, we held our 3rd youth workshop "Geaux Paddle" aimed at getting youths ages 10 to 14 paddling on Bayou Teche and learning about the ecological and recreational values of the bayou. We plan to continue that workshop each summer.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $114k to $34k (−70%).
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: 2019 42% · 2020 87% · 2021 56% · 2022 72% · 2023 73% · 2024 45% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TECHE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $13k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 TECHE PROJECT’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
TECHE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
57% 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 TECHE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 66% · 2022 79% · 2023 80% — 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
50% of TECHE PROJECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% 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
68% of TECHE PROJECT's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TECHE PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TECHE PROJECT: 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 TECHE PROJECT?
- TECHE PROJECT (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,283 to it, the largest being KEEP LOUISIANA BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATIONINC ($10,463). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TECHE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $43,283 in grants to TECHE PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TECHE PROJECT?
- KEEP LOUISIANA BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATIONINC is the largest funder on record, with $10,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TECHE PROJECT 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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