Louisiana Pecan Festival Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900032298
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Colfax, LA, USA
Phone
3187928384
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,504
Expenses
$50,975
Assets
$59,224
Liabilities
$100

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MELISSA GREENZEIG (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BETSY LYLES (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DANIELLE YERBY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MELISSA GREENZEIG (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BROOKE L HUSSIER (BOARD MEMBER)
  • TINA CATTERUCCIA (TREASURER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To organize and operate the annual pecan festival including the corresponding pageants and queens ball in the town of colfax, Louisiana. Through the festival, the organization educates the public about the pecan industry and local history. The festival also promotes the local youth by hosting a number of events to showcase their tallents.

What it reported doing in 2024

Queen's pageant and ball - the pageant is held in mid october and kicks off the pecan festival. The pageant is held to select the Louisiana pecan festival queen to represent the festival and promote the pecan industry in Louisiana for the following year. It is open to girls ages 17 to 23 years old, who are citizens of the united states and residents of Louisiana or a full time student at a high school, university, or college within the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana pecan festival pageant - this pageant is a competition for boys and girls 0 to 16 years old who are charged entry fees and then appear in an ad book, ads are sold for the ad book and a reward is given for various levels of sales.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -80.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.