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Baton Rouge Alliance for Students

The alliance's work focuses on empowering families, elevating community, and engaging leaders.

$153k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Community Improvement$148kArts & Culture$100kYouth Development$98kEducation$95kHuman Services$55kPublic Benefit$15kRecreation & Sports$12kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $55,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $152,751 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,751 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOAM (FATHERS ON A MISSION)$15,000
REDSTICK CARES$10,000
THE GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP$10,000
LINE4LINE$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $25k → 15%FOAM (FATHERS ON A MISSION): $15k → 19%FOAM (FATHERS ON A MISSION): $10k → 19%PROJECT 70805 INC: $13k → 19%THE BRIDGE AGENCY: $10k → 19%REDSTICK CARES: $10k → 19%REDSTICK CARES: $10k → 19%REDSTICK CARES: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$265k · 8 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$265k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+8%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TW
    THE WALLS PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +238%
  • BR
    Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +143%
  • GB
    GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +3%
  • LC
    LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • TF
    Thrive Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Urban League of Louisiana

To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Benola Inc

The mission of Black Education For New Orleans BE NOLA is to support Black educators and schools to ensure an education that creates better outcomes and opportunities for Black children in New Orleans as a critical factor in building a…

Education
3
The Young People's Project Inc

The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.

Education
4
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation

The barbara bush houston literacy foundation is dedicated to improving lives and communities through the power of literacy.(continued in schedule o)

Philanthropy
5
Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc

Develop a generation of individuals who are armed with the confidence, knowledge and determination to thrive in order to build a better future for themselves and their community.

International
6
Baton Rouge College Preparatory Inc

Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.

7
Baton Rouge Sponsoring Committee

Together Baton Rouge is a broad-based coalition of congregations and community-based organizations in the Greater Baton Rouge area with the capacity to address community problems large and small. TBR is deliberate about crossing the lines…

Community Improvement
8
Train Up a Child Nola

Providing educational opportunities and support to underserved youth in New Orleans.

Youth Development
9
Bankon Baton Rouge

Bank on baton rouge focuses on assisting underserved populations with second chance bank accounts; promoting financial literacy education; and exploring fintech (financial technology) programs for the greater baton rouge area.

10
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools

Rethink's mission is to support black youth in becoming thoughtful leaders, capable of critically rethinking their experiences, and taking action to create and sustain transformative systemic change.

Youth Development
11
Modesty

Charitable Service Based Organziation

Human Services
12
The Peer Power Foundation Inc

Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Redstick Cares. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

29 11 ACADEMY — $37,000 · Other29 11 ACADEMYCITY YEAR INC — $25,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCGALLOWAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherGALLOWAY FOUNDATION INCNEW ORLEANS CONVENTION CO INC — $12,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS CONVENTION CO INCYOUNG LEADERS ACADEMY OF BATON ROUG — $10,000 · OtherYOUNG LEADERS ACADEMY OF BATON …VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $7,500 · OtherThrive Foundation — $20,000 · OtherThrive FoundationSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 · OtherSave The Children Federation In…REDSTICK CARES — $30,000 · Human ServicesREDSTICK CARESFOAM Fathers on a Mission — $25,000 · Human ServicesFOAM Fathers on a Mis…LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S …PROJECT 70805 INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT 70805 INCThe BRidge Agency INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe BRidge Agency INCBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AREA FOUN…THE WALLS PROJECT — $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLS PROJE…LINE 4 LINE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLINE 4 LINEBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBaton Rou…POWER PUMP GIRLS INC — $17,500 · Public BenefitPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A — $15,000 · Public BenefitGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$146,500Human Services$102,500Philanthropy$100,000Arts & Culture$75,000Youth Development$45,000Public Benefit$32,500Community Improvement$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT — $65,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetREDSTICK CARES — $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFOAM Fathers on a Mission — $25,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThrive Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPOWER PUMP GIRLS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT 70805 INC — $12,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe BRidge Agency INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLINE 4 LINE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Huey & Angelina Wilson FoundationLA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · New Schools for Baton Rouge · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Albemarle Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Baton Rouge Alliance for Students funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Baton Rouge Alliance for Students?

Find your warmest path to Baton Rouge Alliance for Students through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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