Louisiana Architecture Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721336869
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2253875579
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,637
- Expenses
- $70,247
- Assets
- $86,253
- Liabilities
- $975
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE L DUFOUR (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- MARVIN RAGLAND JR (Past Chairman)
- EDDIE CAZAYOUX (Treasurer)
- ANDY SANDERS (Secretary)
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
To advance architecture in Louisiana
What it reported doing in 2025
Architectural file screenings to advance architecture in Louisiana.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.2%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 27%; rating input score 27
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.2% of revenue deployed · 27% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.