Louisiana · Nonprofit
The Watering Hole Foundation Inc
The Watering Hole Foundation Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,700 to it, the largest being THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ($91,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $8k
What The Watering Hole Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Watering Hole Foundation is dedicated to help save endangered wildlife and preserve the earth's remaining wilderness. Our Board of Directors identifys and assists local and global initiatives that conduct scientific research, veterinary care, public awareness and land initiatives specifically geared toward protecting endangered animals and their habitats. Through our efforts we hope to preserve the existence of the earth's endangered animals for generations in the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Support Wildlife Conservancy which supports endnagered animal conservation field projects globally at the community level.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17k to $2k (−91%).
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 Watering Hole Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $16k.
From the IRS filings of The Watering Hole Foundation 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 Watering Hole Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Watering Hole Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
86% of The Watering Hole Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
The Watering Hole Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Watering Hole Foundation 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Watering Hole Foundation 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 Watering Hole Foundation Inc?
- The Watering Hole Foundation Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,700 to it, the largest being THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ($91,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Watering Hole Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $106,700 in grants to The Watering Hole Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Watering Hole Foundation Inc?
- THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Watering Hole Foundation 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 3 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