Baton Rouge Bar Foundation

Analysis

Baton Rouge Bar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Baton Rouge Bar Foundation reported income of $346k and spending of $347k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $252k to $346k (+37%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Baton Rouge Bar Foundation sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sanilac County Child Abuse Prevention Council ($346k), Youth Service Bureau of Huntington County Inc ($347k) and Aliive-Roberts County Inc ($346k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $190k. At year end it held assets of $900k against liabilities of $139k, net assets of $761k.