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The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc

The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $95 to it, the largest being Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation ($95). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$386k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$95
Net assets
$20k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc does

Mission

The organization was organized to implement comprehensive programs addressing economic, education, and health problems in the pairhses of Concordia, East Carroll, Madison, Ouachita and Tensas. The organizations primary focus is counseling, mentoring and tutoring youth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Implement programs and conduct seminars addressing interrelated problems of education and human development, health and nutrition needs, and economic development. Approximately 14

    $384,868 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $384,868.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets -20 ($-4314)2018 Revenue 136 ($174k) Expenses 136 ($174k) Net assets -20 ($-4314)2019 Revenue 140 ($179k) Expenses 140 ($179k) Net assets -20 ($-4314)2020 Revenue 150 ($191k) Expenses 129 ($165k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2022 Revenue 281 ($359k) Expenses 273 ($349k) Net assets 54 ($12k)2023 Revenue 279 ($356k) Expenses 290 ($370k) Net assets -9 ($-2052)2024 Revenue 307 ($393k) Expenses 284 ($362k) Net assets 132 ($28k)2025 Revenue 302 ($386k) Expenses 309 ($395k) Net assets 93 ($20k)
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Revenue (302)Expenses (309)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

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 $41k to $176k (+331%).

$53k
$19k
$12k
$28k
$100k
$41k
$176k
$120k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$0
’18
$0
’19
$26k
’20
$10k
’22
−$14k
’23
$30k
’24
−$9k
’25
1.0
months of
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

Carolyn Hunt

Executive Director

Board chair

Leartrice Hawkins

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed7777
Joined·+0+1+0
No longer listed·010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of The Louisiana Center Against Poverty 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.

Where its funders are

The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

LA

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc?
The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $95 to it, the largest being Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation ($95). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $95 in grants to The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc.
Who is the largest funder of The Louisiana Center Against Poverty Inc?
Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $95 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Louisiana Center Against Poverty 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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