LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B82

Classification

1000

Street

5909 SAINT CLAUDE AVENUE

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

• TEP Tours Description of the accomplishments - In 2024, the LTFC staff welcomed 737 adults to the TEP Center, participating in a Tour of the former McDonogh 19 Elementary School (current TEP Interpretive Center), including the principal's office, the McDonogh 3's 1st grade classroom, historical markers, the LA Civil Rights Train marker, and the newly installed B. Mike mural. Measurements- 737 adults toured the TEP Center in 2024NEW - Three new part-time docents were hired/trained in 2024. This addition to our staff enabled us to welcome hundreds of additional adults to the TEP center in 2024. Narrative - Visitors step into the time/place of desegregation, experiencing desegregation history & seeing themselves inside history.

  Expenses $157,275

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $92,414

• TEP Talk Description of the Accomplishments - Through the publication of 4 different TEP Talk programs, LTFC has reached over 300 people with unique discussions connecting the Civil Rights Movement to current Social Justice concerns. Measurements - LTFC welcomed 25 people to participate in TEP Center TEP Talks in 2024. NEW - The TEP Center Program Director included an annual TEP Talk as a part of the Anniversary Week Activities, celebrating a different aspect of the Civil Rights Movement & tying it into current events. Narrative - TEP Talks is a forum highlighting untold stories of the Civil Rights Movement in NOLA, connecting them to present justice issues.

  Expenses $2,520

• Ringing the Bell Description of the Accomplishments -As a part of the first Ringing the Bell cohort, Frederick Douglass Teachers & LTFC program director worked on a lesson to be taught to the entire student body. The lesson built upon New Orleans history, connecting Mardi Gras history & tradition to the larger New Orleans society. The lesson that was created touched on the history of desegregation in the Krewes, the history of Mardi Gras celebrations in general and what is the impact of parading through communities. Ultimately this lesson was taught to nearly 700 high school aged students. Measurements - 700 students, 6 teachers and 2 administrators participated in the Ringing the Bell Program in the Fall of 2024. Narrative - "Ringing the Bell" is a professional development program for teachers, instructing them on best practices for including civil rights lessons into their core curriculum. The goal is to undo racist educational systems, increase teacher retention & experience growth in student outcomes.

  Expenses $92,414

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

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

  $508,099

  Expenses

  $720,959

  Contributions

  $400,773

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $319,051

  Expenses

  $623,828

  Contributions

  $239,479

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,271,101

  Expenses

  $732,320

  Contributions

  $2,185,979

  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

  $1,192,412

  Expenses

  $437,273

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,934,994

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,641,495

  Expenses

  $521,918

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,859,989

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $124,211

  Expenses

  $237,777

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,565,356

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 2019

Tax period

1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020

Principal officer

Leona Tate

Mailing address

PO Box 872337New Orleans LA 70187

Website

leonatatefoundation.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

• NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION

  $60,000

  2023 · SCHOLARSHIPS & STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $48,065

  2024 · SCHOLARSHIPS & STUDENT FINANCIAL AID

• UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

  $46,479

  2024 · DESIGNATED GIFTS

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $40,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $40,000

  2024 · Project support

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $40,000

  2023 · Project support

• RIVER NETWORK

  $15,000

  2024 · RIVER CONSERVATION

• RIVER NETWORK

  $15,000

  2022 · RIVER CONSERVATION

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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.

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