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FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA

EIN 20-3399944 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Largest nonprofits in Louisiana

Revenue 2023
$6,680,084
Expenses 2023
$6,815,543

Program services were 75.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M12
Classification
1000
Street
1820 ST CHARLES AVE SUITE 200

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 · 2023

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA IS TO INVEST IN PEOPLE AND PRACTICES THAT WORK TO REDUCE VULNERABILITY AND BUILD STRONGER, MORE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES STATEWIDE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA IS A CATALYST FOR JUSTICE. FFL INVESTS IN (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O) COMMUNITIES AND IDEAS, BUILDS PARTNERSHIPS, AND TRANSFORMS POLICIES AND SYSTEMS FOR AN EQUITABLE, STRONGER LOUISIANA.

  • FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA (FFL) IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE PHILANTHROPIC INTERMEDIARY FOUNDED IN 2005 AS THE LOUISIANA DISASTER RECOVERY FOUNDATION TO INVEST IN THE IMMEDIATE RECOVERY OF LOUISIANA'S COMMUNITIES AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA. WHILE FFL WAS FOUNDED IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE KATRINA, OUR FOUNDERS RECOGNIZED THE NEED TO ADDRESS THE LONGSTANDING INEQUITIES THAT HAVE SHAPED LIFE OUTCOMES FOR THE MOST MARGINALIZED OF LOUISIANANS. OUR PROGRAMS GREW IN RESPONSE TO THESE NEEDS, AND TODAY FFL FOCUSES ON RACIAL JUSTICE, CLIMATE JUSTICE, CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, AND TRANSFORMAION, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, GENDER JUSTICE, AND SUPPORT FOR LOUISIANA'S VIBRANT ARTS AND CULTURE BEARERS VIA: (1) INVESTMENT: AS A PHILANTHROPIC INTERMEDIARY, WE REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES TO ON THE GROUND PROJECTS (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O) THROUGHOUT LOUISIANA, THROUGH GRANTS, REGRANTING, AND LENDING RESOURCES TO ON THE GROUND PROJECTS MANY OF WHOM CAN'T ACCESS TRADITIONAL PHILANTHROPY. EACH YEAR, FFL REDISTRIBUTES APPROXIMATELY $2 MILLION TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS AND PROJECTS THROUGHOUT LOUISIANA IN OUR KEY PROGRAM AREAS. (2) POWER BUILDING: WE BUILD THE CAPACITY OF OUR PARTNERS AND GRANTEES TO EFFECT CHANGE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS, LEAD AND TOGETHER, CONVENE EMERGING AND EXPERIENCED COMMUNITY LEADERS TO PROVIDE TRAINING RELATED TO ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY, POLICY CHANGE, LEADERSHIP, PUBLIC SPEAKING, AND GROUP FACILITATION THAT INCREASES THEIR CAPACITY TO TACKLE ISSUES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY, HEALTH DISPARITIES, HOUSING ACCESS, AND MORE. (3) COLLABORATION: WE DEVELOP COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES THROUGH LEVERAGING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERS TO IMPACT CHANGE, SUPPORT PUBLIC POLICY INITIATIVES, AND PROVIDE CRITICAL FISCAL SPONSORSHIP AND MANAGEMENT TO EXTERNAL PROJECTS AND SPECIAL INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $5,139,020 · Grants $3,176,957 · Revenue $314,063

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Pamela Jenkins

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • May T Nguyen

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Michelle Ramos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Halima Leak-Francis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lt General Russel Honore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sada Dumas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Keith Magee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charmel Gaulden

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $181,850
    From this org
    $169,039
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,811
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $169,039
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,011
    Filer's total
    $181,850

  • Dana Delpit

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $143,814
    From this org
    $121,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,767
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jamie Schmill

    VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $142,529
    From this org
    $117,840
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,689
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,680,084
    Expenses
    $6,815,543
    Contributions
    $5,687,739
    Grants paid
    $3,176,957
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,845,870
    Expenses
    $5,272,832
    Contributions
    $3,851,242
    Grants paid
    $2,412,778

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
    $8,190,410
    Expenses
    $4,473,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,167,446

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,417,372
    Expenses
    $8,922,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,807,161

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,749,583
    Expenses
    $3,433,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,951,965

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,729,443
    Expenses
    $4,021,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,745,038

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,139,026
    Expenses
    $4,323,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,832,295

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,671,675
    Expenses
    $3,818,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,588,994

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,063,758
    Expenses
    $3,963,654
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,724,394

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,502,289
    Expenses
    $1,976,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,012,808

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $835,955
    Expenses
    $1,492,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,461,011

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $835,955
    Expenses
    $1,492,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,461,011

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2022 return

  • FFL INVESTMENTS LLC

    HOLDING COMPANY FOR PROPERTY · LA · income $0 · assets $0

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.