Louisiana Bar Foundation
New Orleans, LA · EIN 23-7100704. Reported 140 grants totalling $33.2M to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Louisiana Bar Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for crime & legal (NTEE I128).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 40% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 97% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $45,262. Half of what it reported fell between $22,750 and $107,083; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $5,939,360. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadiana Legal Service Corporation | Lafayette, LA | $13.3M | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corporation | Hammond, LA | $9,309,654 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Loyola University | New Orleans, LA | $1,053,250 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Pro Bono Project | New Orleans, LA | $819,616 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baton Rouge Bar Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $622,904 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Shreveport Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project | Shreveport, LA | $593,958 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lagniappe Law Lab | New Orleans, LA | $584,713 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Wellspring Alliance for Families Inc | Monroe, LA | $506,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation | Lafayette, LA | $416,513 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $361,909 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $321,056 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chez Hope Inc | Franklin, LA | $296,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Appleseed Center for Law and Justice | New Orleans, LA | $291,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southwest Louisiana Bar Foundation | Lake Charles, LA | $277,623 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Haven Inc | Houma, LA | $256,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Disability Rights Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $247,750 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family Justice Center of Central Louisiana Inc | Pineville, LA | $237,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central Louisiana Pro Bono Project Inc | Alexandria, LA | $228,235 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Justice and Accountability Center | New Orleans, LA | $221,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Project Celebration Inc | Many, LA | $202,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Faith House Inc | Lafayette, LA | $189,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Metro Centers for Community Advocacy | New Orleans, LA | $167,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Center for Childrens Rights | New Orleans, LA | $166,150 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of North Louisiana | Shreveport, LA | $164,097 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Frontline Legal Services | New Orleans, LA | $161,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fostering Community | Alexandria, LA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southeast Spouse Abuse Program | Hammond, LA | $147,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northeast Louisiana District Bar Foundation | Monroe, LA | $136,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Extra Mile Region IV Inc | Lafayette, LA | $131,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| D a R T Domestic Abuse Resistance Team of Lincoln | Ruston, LA | $126,425 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| No AIDS Task Force | New Orleans, LA | $125,950 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beauregard Community Concerns Inc | Deridder, LA | $120,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baton Rouge Child Advocacy Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $119,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Innocence Project New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education Inc | New Orleans, LA | $106,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Youth Service Bureau of St Tammany | Covington, LA | $101,355 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| First Grace Community Alliance | New Orleans, LA | $99,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family Violence Program of St Bernard | Chalmette, LA | $92,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Safe Harbor | Mandeville, LA | $92,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oasis a Safe Haven for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence | Lake Charles, LA | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jeff Davis Communities Against Domestic Abuse Inc | Jennings, LA | $87,673 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Training Education and Mediation for Students Inc | Shreveport, LA | $87,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family and Youth Counseling Agency | Lake Charles, LA | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Southwest Louisiana Law Center Inc | Lake Charles, LA | $51,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Frances Cabrini Immigration Law Center | Lake Charles, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ella Project | New Orleans, LA | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State Bar Association | New Orleans, LA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson Childrens Advocacy Center | Terrytown, LA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center Hope House | Covington, LA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emergency Legal Responders | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gingerbread House | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| NAMI Southeast Louisiana | Mandeville, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Starc of Louisiana Inc | Slidell, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA of Terrebonne Inc | Houma, LA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
39 of 54 (72%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Acadiana Legal Service Corporation
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION - Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (olscls)
CHILDREN'S LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM - Lagniappe Law Lab
SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP GRANT - The Wellspring Alliance for Families
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM - Jefferson Children's Advocacy Center
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PANEL
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 47 | $7,120,590 | $26,917 |
| 2022 | 39 | $8,013,437 | $38,000 |
| 2023 | 54 | $18.0M | $89,200 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $45,262 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Louisiana Bar Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1615 Poydras St Suite 1000, New Orleans, LA, 70112.
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