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BASIC NECESSITIES

EIN 85-1567712 SHREVEPORT, LA

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Revenue 2024
$99,329
Expenses 2024
$60,777

Program services were 36.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P60
Classification
1000
Street
520 OLIVE ST

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

Basic Necessities distributes diapers, wipes, feminine and incontinence products at no-cost to low income individuals and families in the ArkLaTex.

  • Diapers/Wipes: We distributed 255,690 diapers to 6,420 families and individuals in need in the ArkLaTex.

    Expenses $16,500

  • Feminine Products: We distributed 55,825 period products in the ArkLaTex, to families in need, and individuals, including public schools/universities, community organizations and agencies, and for disaster relief efforts.

    Expenses $2,600

  • Incontinence Supplies: We supply adult diapers, bed pads, and other undergarments to senior citizens across the ArkLaTex. We distributed supplies, totalling more than 40,000.

    Expenses $3,203

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Meagan Banai

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,364
    Compensation
    $7,364
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mikala Jefferson

    AmeriCorps VISTA

    Total calculated
    $750
    Compensation
    $750
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Martha Sugar

    Member - Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dosite John Perkins

    Member - Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sandra Roberson

    Member - Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Bush

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Francine Monroe Brown

    Board Member/Interim Director

    Total calculated
    $3,500
    Compensation
    $3,500
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $99,329
    Expenses
    $60,777
    Contributions
    $99,329
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $96,952
    Expenses
    $95,872
    Contributions
    $96,952
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $110,200
    Expenses
    $106,032
    Contributions
    $110,200
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $70,420
    Expenses
    $58,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,054

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Deborah Hollis
Mailing address
63 COLONY CIRSHREVEPORT LA 71115
Website
www.BasicNecessitiesLA.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.