Louisiana · Nonprofit
Were Better Than Blessed
Were Better Than Blessed (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $400k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $0
What Were Better Than Blessed does
Mission
We provide clothes for low income individuals, household items and shelter to battered women and provide the homeless in our community with shelter and food
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We provide clothes for low income individuals, families and households. We provide household items and shelter to battered women and provide the homeless with shelter and food.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $164k to $0 (−100%).
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 Were Better Than Blessed’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Against its field
Were Better Than Blessed runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Were Better Than Blessed
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Were Better Than Blessed: 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 Were Better Than Blessed?
- Were Better Than Blessed (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Were Better Than Blessed have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Were Better Than Blessed, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Were Better Than Blessed?
- GOOD360 is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Were Better Than Blessed 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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