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Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation

Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,285 to it, the largest being CLIFFORD F SPANIER FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$4k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$53k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation does

Mission

To promote public awareness of land loss issues in southeast louisiana

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

The Voice of The Wetlands Festival-A weekend event held annually to educate the public about the plight of south Louisiana. The festival also promotes the music and culture unique to the area that is in jeoprady due to the increased land loss in the coastal region. Music is the main medium used by the organization - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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 ($156k) Expenses 100 ($189k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 126 ($196k) Expenses 100 ($188k) Net assets 111 ($86k)2019 Revenue 107 ($167k) Expenses 98 ($185k) Net assets 88 ($68k)2020 Revenue 11 ($17k) Expenses 10 ($19k) Net assets 87 ($67k)2021 Revenue 3 ($4k) Expenses 10 ($18k) Net assets 69 ($53k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (3)Expenses (10)Net assets (69)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 2018 to 2019, from $106k to $76k (−28%).

$91k
$106k
$76k
$75k
$61k
20172018201920202021
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
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’17
$8k
’18
−$17k
’19
−$2k
’20
−$14k
’21
37
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed55555
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $581.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation’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

Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 72% · 2020 56% · 2021 82% · 2022 78% · 2023 86% — 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.

Where its funders are

88% of Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation is better cushioned than half of the 2,969 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−352% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve36.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−60% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

Organizations like Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
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.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation: 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 Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation?
Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,285 to it, the largest being CLIFFORD F SPANIER FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,285 in grants to Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation?
CLIFFORD F SPANIER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 4 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