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TECHE PROJECT

EIN 01-0927490 ARNAUDVILLE, LA

Revenue 2024
$52,533
Expenses 2024
$35,683

Program services were 38.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C60
Classification
2100
Street
PO BOX 165

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

WORK TO ENHANCE THE ECOLOGY OF THE BAYOU TECHE WATERSHED. TO ENCOURAGE RECREATIONAL USE OF BAYOU TECHE BY BUILDING A FIRST CLASS PADDLE TRAIL WITH ACCESS DOCKS IN ALL FIFTEEN TOWNS ALONG THE BAYOU. TO WORK WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO PROMOTE TRAIL BASED TOURISM AND ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE BAYOU TECHE CORRIDOR

Activities or mission (Part I)

WORK TO ENHANCE THE ECOLOGY OF BAYOU TECHE AND TO BUILD AND MANAGE THE BAYOU TECHE PADDLE TRAIL, A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECOGNIZED NATIONAL WATER TRAIL, FOR TRAIL BASED TOURISM IN THE FIFTEEN COMMUNITIES ALONG BAYOU TECHE.

  • PROMOTED THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF BAYOU TECHE: HOSTED THE 12TH ANNUAL SHAKE YOUR TRAIL FEATHER PADDLE PARADE AND FESTIVAL WITH OVER 250 ATTENDEES ENJOYING THE LIVE MUSIC AND PADDLE EXCURSION. LOCAL CAJUN MUSICIANS ENTERTAINED PADDLERS IN OUR ANNUAL BAYOU TECHE PADDLE PARADE. THE TECHE PROJECT HOSTED OUR ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP BANQUET IN ARNAUDVILLE AT NUNU ARTS AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE WITH OVER 130 ATTENDEES. A CULTURAL PRESENTATION PERTAINING TO THE EVOLUTION OF ARTWORK INSPIRED BY BAYOU TECHE WAS GIVEN. WE REPRESENTED THE TECHE PROJECT AND OUR MISSION AT SEVERAL EVENTS. WE ALSO GAVE PRESENTATIONS ABOUT OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE GOALS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $13,228 · Revenue $17,366

  • Enhancing the ecology of Bayou Teche: We took part in the spring Love the Boot campaign by cleaning trailhead parks at our dock sites. We also hosted a clean up day at various sites on the bayou and periodically pulled trash with boats to account for over 60 tons of trash in the past 14 years. We partnered with the Iris Conservation Initiative to plant irises at our paddle trail dock sites. We gave guidance to interested parties regarding wood duck nest box management. We have 60 participants in our program to rear ducks along the bayou, and are hatching over 800 ducklings annually. We hosted a youth workshop (Geaux Paddle) in June of 2024 with the goal of getting kids paddling on the bayou and teaching them about riparian ecology. We plan to continue this workshop each summer.

    Expenses $544 · Revenue $620

  • Encouraging Recreational Use on Bayou Teche: The Bayou Teche National Paddle Trail infrastructure was completed at the end of 2023, however, we plan to continue our work to add features to improve paddle trail usage into the future. Now that installation work is completed, we have shifted to promotion. In 2024, we got the Bayou Teche National Paddle Trail listed on the national trail finder platform, ALLTrails. We also worked with local governments and tourism offices to post information including our paddle trail maps and paddle trail planning tool that gives guidance to potential users about what to see and do for 1-day and weekend paddle excursions. In 2024, we worked with local outfitter, Wanderlust rentals to assist their proposal to install passive kayak kiosk rental stations at our dock sites and hope to have the first station installed in the summer of 2025.

    Revenue $21,250

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.

  • Erin Bass

    administrative assistant

    Total calculated
    $23,004
    From this org
    $23,004
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Patti Holland

    Council member/ Secretary/Exucitive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Dane Thibodeaux

    council Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brent Miller

    Council Member/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Martin

    Council Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARGARET SIMOM

    COUNCIL MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREG GUIDROZ

    COUNCIL MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIMMY GRAVOIS

    COUNCIL MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX GUILLORY

    COUNCIL MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Conni Castille

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Holland

    Bookkeeper

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $52,533
    Expenses
    $35,683
    Contributions
    $52,533
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $106,486
    Expenses
    $107,935
    Contributions
    $106,486
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $99,536
    Expenses
    $112,045
    Contributions
    $99,536
    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
    $131,423
    Expenses
    $106,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,670

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $173,568
    Expenses
    $253,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,151

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $83,585
    Expenses
    $50,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,069

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 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Connie Castile
Mailing address
PO Box 114Arnaudville LA 70512
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.