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LEADERS FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA INC

EIN 72-1223265 BATON ROUGE, LA

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Revenue 2025
$1,591,171
Expenses 2025
$1,561,058

Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S41
Classification
2000
Street
450 LAUREL ST STE 1900

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1900). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO DEVELOP AND CONNECT LEADERS AND CITIZENS TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA. THROUGH ITS WORK, THE ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO TRANSFORM LOUISIANA INTO A DYNAMIC, FUTURE-READY ECONOMY THAT OFFERS EVERY CITIZEN AND BUSINESS THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE.

  • DRIVING TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE THROUGH DATA-DRIVEN POLICY ADVOCACY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, AND LEADERSHIP EMPOWERMENT. THE ORGANIZATION FOCUSES ON ADVANCING NONPARTISAN SOLUTIONS TO LOUISIANA'S MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES WHILE CULTIVATING A STATEWIDE NETWORK OF INFORMED LEADERS COMMITTED TO UNLOCKING THE STATE'S FULL POTENTIAL FOR ALL CITIZENS.

    Expenses $1,249,667

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Adam Knapp

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $397,200
    From this org
    $349,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $291,000
    Bonus
    $58,200
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $39,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,000
    Filer's total
    $397,200
  • Scott Ballard

    CHAIR - ELEC

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Wayne Brown

    IMMEDIATE PA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tom Clark

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Bill Fontenot

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Gwen Hamilton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Trott Hunt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jay Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jerry Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Spencer Martin

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Kellen Matthews

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Philip May

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Kyle McDonald

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jude Melville

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Malcolm Murchison

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Heather Poole

    CO - CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Philip Rozeman

    CO - CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Robert Schneckenburger

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Julie Stokes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Gray Stream

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Monique Thierry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Michael Tipton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mary Leach Werner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,591,171
    Expenses
    $1,561,058
    Contributions
    $983,610
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,015,208
    Expenses
    $922,584
    Contributions
    $895,757
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $673,146
    Expenses
    $726,324
    Contributions
    $576,711
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $940,747
    Expenses
    $638,648
    Contributions
    $810,154
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $672,725
    Expenses
    $580,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,349
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $721,776
    Expenses
    $535,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,604
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $635,551
    Expenses
    $590,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $487,330
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $643,957
    Expenses
    $589,236
    Assets (EOY)
    $432,653
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $470,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $336,083

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2019.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.