Basic Necessities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851567712
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Shreveport, LA, US
- Phone
- 318.751.0851
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,590
- Expenses
- $166,297
- Assets
- $34,938
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- MIKALA JEFFERSON (AMERICORPS VISTA)
- KYLE KELLY (BOARD MEMBER)
- ALETA ELIE (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to remove barriers for families in need through the distribution of critical resources, education, and community advocacy in order to promote equity and autonomy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Feminine products: we distributed 97,426 period products in the ark-la-tex to families in neeed, individuals, public schools/universities, community organizations and agencies, as well as for disaster relief efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 53.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.