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FOR A BETTER BAYOU

EIN 92-1779463 LAKE CHARLES, LA

Largest nonprofits in Louisiana

Revenue 2024
$377,663
Expenses 2024
$212,931

Program services were 94.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 7262

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

Mission

To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.

  • For a Better Bayou conducted outreach to local elected leaders churches schools and community spaces to inform them of the organizations goal to educate the public on environmental and health issues related to industrial operations and to build partnerships to do this work together. Staff organized community events and meetings and distributed information about the impacts of continued industrial buildout.

    Expenses $201,382 · Grants $2,500

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.

  • James Hiatt

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $84,000
    From this org
    $84,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Roddy Hughes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Naomi Yoder

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kathleen Melendez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jeffrey Jacoby

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $377,663
    Expenses
    $212,931
    Contributions
    $377,663
    Grants paid
    $2,500

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.

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.