Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE IDEA VILLAGE INC
THE IDEA VILLAGE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,988,307 to it, the largest being The Coulter Family Foundation ($425,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What The Idea Village Inc does
Mission
The idea village' is a non-profit organization that focuses on developing the region's startup community through accelerator programs, events, and strategic initiatives designed to grow the region's pipeline for innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fy2025, the idea village delivered entrepreneurship and innovation programming that supported startup founders across louisiana and the gulf south through ideainstitute, villagex, and the 3rd coast venture summit. Ideainstitute provided foundational entrepreneurial training and mentorship to 144 founders through workshops and accelerator programming focused on business development and venture readiness. Villagex supported high-growth startups through intensive mentorship, strategic advising, and investor preparation, with participating companies collectively raising approximately $3.5 million in capital, generating more than 35 jobs, and producing $3.7 million in annualized revenue growth during the fiscal year. The organization also hosted the 3rd coast venture summit, convening 193 attendees, including 107 investors representing 71 firms and 60 selected startups, to strengthen regional connectivity, faciliate access to capital, and advance the gulf south innovation ecosystem.
$1,598,741 spentof which $294,318 as grants$151,820 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,598,741.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $482k (−60%).
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: 2017 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 7% · 2023 20% · 2024 2% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE IDEA VILLAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jon Atkinson
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income rose $203k → $287k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $1.2M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater New Orleans Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE IDEA VILLAGE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE IDEA VILLAGE INC’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
THE IDEA VILLAGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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 49% · 2018 79% · 2019 79% · 2020 39% · 2021 37% · 2022 51% · 2023 35% — 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
26% of THE IDEA VILLAGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
THE IDEA VILLAGE INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 IDEA VILLAGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE IDEA VILLAGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$750k
- Delta Regional Authority$278k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE IDEA VILLAGE 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE IDEA VILLAGE INC: 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 THE IDEA VILLAGE INC?
- THE IDEA VILLAGE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,988,307 to it, the largest being The Coulter Family Foundation ($425,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE IDEA VILLAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,988,307 in grants to THE IDEA VILLAGE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE IDEA VILLAGE INC?
- The Coulter Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE IDEA VILLAGE INC 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 27 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