Texas · Nonprofit
THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC
THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC (Texas) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,040 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($323,522). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $915k
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The Cajun Navy Relief Inc does
Mission
Hurricane relief - provide disaster rescue and relief services for victims of hurricanes
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hurricane helene - ongoing relief operations (started in late 2024) to people displaced from flooding in tennessee, north carolina and south carolina. This included basic food and hygiene supplies and temporary shelter to effected people. Included in the expense amount are modest donations to 501(c)3 organizations with similar missions to cnr to true-up restricted donations cnr collected in 2025, and to continue operations after cnr volunteers returned home.
$239,899 spentof which $162,000 as grants$135,029 earned by the program48% of program spendingTexas flood - supplied a modest team (5 trained sr&r people) to initialy conduct search & rescue operations, and later, recovery operations in/around kerr, texas from flooding along the guadalupe river in the summer of 2025. Included in the expense amount are modest equipment purchases for 501(c)3 volunteer fire departments to replace necessary equipment they lost in the flood, and a donation to true-up our restricted donations and support ongoing relief to impacted residents of the area after our volunteers needed to return home.
$168,933 spentof which $105,000 as grants$168,697 earned by the program34% of program spendingFleet Costs and Community Outreach
$88,434 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $497,266.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.8M (+92%).
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.
100% of THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Lycia Fergusson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $21k → $52k.
19 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
75% 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 THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 97% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 2023 25% — 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
0% of THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% 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
71% of THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $373k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $922k arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC?
- THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC (Texas) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,040 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($323,522). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $1,295,040 in grants to THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $323,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 65 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