Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation

Analysis

Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lafayette, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation reported income of $243k and spending of $240k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $206k to $243k (+18%), an average of +4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Community Corrections Programs Inc ($243k), Salinas Police Activities League Inc ($243k) and Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice ($243k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 140% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $203k, net assets of $984k.