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Baton Rouge Alliance for Students

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

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$148kArts & Culture$100kYouth Development$98kEducation$95kHuman Services$55kPublic Benefit$15kRecreation & Sports$12kInternational$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $108,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $140,164 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,664 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$729k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONS OF THUNDER$20,000
IT GIRL FOUNDATION$20,000
FOAM (FATHERS ON A MISSION)$15,000
GARDERE INITIATIVE$12,000
TRANSFORMATIONAL TOUCH$10,000
LINE4LINE$10,000
THE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING$8,000
KY TRACK CLUB$7,500
THE LANGSTON GALLOWAY FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $25k → 15%THE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $8k → 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%FOAM (FATHERS ON A MISSION): $15k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$339k · 10 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$339k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • LC
    LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +3%
  • TF
    Thrive Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • PA
    PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -13%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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
4
Train Up a Child Nola

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

Youth Development
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 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
7
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.

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8
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
9
Modesty

Charitable Service Based Organziation

Human Services
10
Capital Region Industry for Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions

Infrastructure Solutions

Community Improvement
11
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.

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12
Baton Rouge Alliance for Students

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc; 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

29 11 ACADEMY: $37,000 · Other29 11 ACADEMYGALLOWAY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · OtherGALLOWAY FOUNDATION INCCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCSONS OF THUNDER: $20,000 · OtherSONS OF THUNDERIT GIRL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherIT GIRL FOUNDATIONNEW ORLEANS CONVENTION CO INC: $12,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS CONVENTION CO INCYOUNG LEADERS ACADEMY OF BATON ROUG: $10,000 · OtherTRANSFORMATIONAL TOUCH: $10,000 · OtherKY TRACK CLUB: $7,500 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $7,500 · OtherThrive Foundation: $20,000 · OtherThrive FoundationSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 · OtherFOAM Fathers on a Mission: $40,000 · Human ServicesFOAM Fathers on a Miss…LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S R…REDSTICK CARES: $30,000 · Human ServicesREDSTICK CARESPROJECT 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 …THE WALLS PROJECT: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLS PROJE…LINE 4 LINE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLINE 4 LINEBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementGARDERE INITIATIVE INC: $12,000 · Community Improvement100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER PUMP GIRLS INC: $17,500 · Public BenefitPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$210,000Human Services$125,500Philanthropy$100,000Arts & Culture$85,000Youth Development$45,000Community Improvement$42,000Public Benefit$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFOAM Fathers on a Mission: $40,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREDSTICK CARES: $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLINE 4 LINE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThrive Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetGARDERE INITIATIVE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe BRidge Agency INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Huey & Angelina W…New Schools for Baton…Rotary Club of Baton …The Credit Bureau of …Blue Cross & Blue Shi…The Merice Boo Johnst…Baton Rouge Area Foun…Capital Area United W…Shell USA Company Fou…The Charles Lamar Fam…Irene W & Cb Penningt…Albemarle Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Baton Rouge Alliance for Students funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baton Rouge Alliance for Students. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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