Organization
Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw
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The Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a Louisiana tribal nonprofit, is organizing a tribe-led resettlement from its eroding island.
- Kind
- Tribal nonprofit (501(c)(3)) of a state-recognized tribe
- Native-led
- yes-self-described
- Works with
- Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw
- Region
- Southeast; LA
- Focus
- Tribal-led resettlement from the eroding island, preserving place, hurricane recovery
- Registry
- EIN 27-0361281 (ProPublica: Isle De Jean Charles Band Of Biloxi-chitimacha-choctaw Inc, Montegut LA)
What happened
The Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw is a tribe on the Louisiana coast. ProPublica lists the band's nonprofit, Isle De Jean Charles Band Of Biloxi-chitimacha-choctaw Inc, in Montegut, Louisiana, under EIN 27-0361281, with tax exemption issued in January 2010. The band's donate page says it holds 501(c)(3) status. It has been described as a state-recognized tribe.
The band's resettlement page says its ancestral island is "rapidly eroding." It says that after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers realigned the Morganza to the Gulf levee in 2001, leaving the island out, the Tribal Council decided to resettle. The page says the band has worked toward resettlement for nearly twenty years and hopes to reunite displaced members and rekindle traditional life-ways.
The band describes its plan as including housing for members at risk of flooding, a community center, museum, gathering areas, childcare and educational spaces, community gardens and a seed-saving program. It lists partners and recognition, including a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant award in 2016 and a collaboration with the Grounded Solutions Network on permanently affordable housing.
The band's donate page currently asks for support for Hurricane Ida recovery and other programs. These are the band's own plans, and it describes no completed land transfer.
Good to know. The band's own resettlement plan is separate from the State of Louisiana's federally funded resettlement project of 2016; the two are easily confused.
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What the sources say, and how this was checked
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After the United States Army Corps of Engineers realigned the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Levee in 2001, leaving the Island out
Isle de Jean Charles - Our Tribal ResettlementWe have worked towards our tribal resettlement for nearly 20 years.
Isle de Jean Charles - Our Tribal ResettlementWe have a 501(c)(3) nonprofit status as defined by the Internal Revenue Service
Isle de Jean Charles - DonateMontegut
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - Isle De Jean Charles Band Of Biloxi-chitimacha-choctaw Inc
Research notes. Tribal status (the record says state-recognized) was not confirmed. The record's vetting note says the 2016 federal resettlement grant was administered by the State of Louisiana, not by the band's nonprofit; this session did not read sources on that state project, so the band's own plan should not be conflated with it. Payee and recency of Form 990 filings were not checked; FY2025 revenue on ProPublica is small (about $27,000).
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- Vetting notes
- 2026-10-17: ProPublica 501(c)(3) record; own site has Tribal Government and Tribal Resettlement sections and a Donate page for hurricane recovery; payee and processor not verified; the 2016 federal resettlement grant is administered by the State, not this org; recency of 990 not checked. Source: https://www.isledejeancharles.com/donate ("From government administration to youth development, we have multiple programs in the works to better serve our tribal members")
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- Organization
- Confidence
- Low
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