Louisiana · Community foundation
Academic Distinction Fund Inc
The academic distinction fund dedicates resources to help achieve academic excellence for students in east baton rouge public schools. Adf promotes academic achievement for all students, encourages best practices in education; supports teachers in their work.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $192k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $155,479
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Academic Distinction Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $192k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $49k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $28k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System | $416,674 | 5 | 41% |
| Line 4 Line | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Knock Knock Children's Museum Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Walls Project | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run South Louisiana | $11,667 | 1 | 3% |
| East Baton Rouge Parish Sd | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Resource Group Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| songs of survivors | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Academic Distinction Fund Inc
- How much does Academic Distinction Fund Inc give?
- Academic Distinction Fund Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $192,146, out of $220,146 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Academic Distinction Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (77%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Environment (4%).
- Who are Academic Distinction Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System ($417k), Line 4 Line ($20k), Knock Knock Children's Museum Inc ($18k).
- Does Academic Distinction Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Academic Distinction Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation, Capital Area United Way.
- Where is Academic Distinction Fund Inc based?
- Academic Distinction Fund Inc is based in LA.
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