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DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA

EIN 72-1005271 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2024
$4,329,626
Expenses 2024
$4,971,512

Program services were 94.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80Z
Classification
1000
Street
8325 OAK 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

Mission

DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA PROTECTS AND ADVOCATES FOR THE HUMAN AND LEGAL RIGHTS OF ALL CHILDREN, ADULTS AND SENIORS WITH DISABILITIES. OUR WORK AIMS TO EMPOWER THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY TO LIVE AN INTEGRATED LIFE, FREE FROM ABUSE, NEGLECT AND EXPLOITATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA (DRLA) IS A 501(C)(3) NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PROTECTS AND ADVOCATES FOR THE HUMAN AND LEGAL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OF ALL AGES ACROSS OUR STATE. WE WORK TO EMPOWER THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY TO LIVE AN INTEGRATED LIFE, FREE FROM ABUSE, NEGLECT AND EXPLOITATION.

  • COMMUNITY LIVING OMBUDSMEN PROGRAM (CLOP): STATEWIDE PROGRAM THAT MONITORS PRIVATE INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY/DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INDIVIDUALS FOR INSTANCES OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT. ALSO ASSISTS IN MOVING INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INTO THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $1,065,951

  • PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY FOR BENEFICIARIES WITH REPRESENTATIVE PAYEES: THIS PROGRAM CONDUCTS REVIEWS ON REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE PERFORMANCE ON BEHALF OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA). THE PROGRAM PROVIDES OVERSIGHT TO REPRESENTATIVE PAYEES AND THEIR SERVICES TO BENEFICIARIES AS WELL AS GIVING THEM SUPPORT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

    Expenses $748,351

  • PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (PADD): PRIMARILY LEGAL WORK AND POLICY WORK THAT IS PERFORMED ON BEHALF OF AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE A DIAGNOSIS OF INTELLECTUAL AND/OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

    Expenses $666,842

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES, INCLUDING CLIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (CAP), PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS (PAIR), FINANCIAL ACCESS INCLUSION AND RESOURCES (FAIR), PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR BENEFICIARIES OF SOCIAL SECURITY (PABSS), LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SUPPORTED INDEPENDENT LIVING ADVOCACY PROGRAM (SILAP), WORK INCENTIVES PLANNING & ASSISTANCE (WIPA), PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (PAIMI), PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (PATBI), PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (PAAT), PROTECTION & ADVOCACY OF VOTER ASSISTANCE (PAVA), AND INTEREST ON LAWYER'S TRUST ACCOUNT (IOLTA) - LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION.

    Expenses $2,202,953

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • GISELLE CELESTINE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • T SHONTAE JOHNSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • LESLIE DURHAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • LILLIAN DEJEAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • JAKEEL ABDULLAH

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 10/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • BARKSDALE HORTENSTINE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • TAMAR BASKIND

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • ADRIENNE THOMAS

    SEC (THRU 01/2025), BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • PATSY WHITE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • HUGH ELEY

    VICE-CHAIR (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • MONICA STAMPLEY

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • KATHRYN LAFRENTZ

    TREASURER (THRU 01/2025), SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • AL THIBODEAUX

    TREASURER (THRU 02/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • TAMARA CANNON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.2 related

  • ANTHONY CARTER

    DIRECTOR FINANCE & ADMIN.

    Total calculated
    $115,889
    From this org
    $87,919
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,970
    Hours/week
    35 + 1 related

  • RANIE THOMPSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $110,900
    From this org
    $99,004
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,896
    Hours/week
    35 + 1 related

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
    $4,329,626
    Expenses
    $4,971,512
    Contributions
    $4,321,542
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,267,653
    Expenses
    $4,508,398
    Contributions
    $6,088,242
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,309,040
    Expenses
    $4,533,565
    Contributions
    $4,247,641
    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
    $4,046,921
    Expenses
    $4,163,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,150,845

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,782,196
    Expenses
    $3,667,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,111,768

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,654,902
    Expenses
    $3,626,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,996,207

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,463,456
    Expenses
    $4,178,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,684,540

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,647,563
    Expenses
    $3,960,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,414,705

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

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

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.