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Baton Rouge Area Foundation
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION unites human and financial resources to enhance the quality of life in southern louisiana.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 340 grants below total $31,067,810 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,378,160 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,310,350 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $348k
- $10k–50k176 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k91 grants · $9.9M
- $250k+25 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK INC | $2,201,762 |
| NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC | $1,780,000 |
| YMCA OF THE CAPITAL AREA | $1,318,600 |
| LSU FOUNDATION | $1,260,369 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE | $1,180,794 |
| 50CAN INC | $1,050,000 |
| BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION INC | $809,600 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL OF BATON ROUGE | $725,912 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHEDRAL | $622,999 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE | $579,342 |
| MAISON DES AMI OF LOUISIANA INC | $532,300 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC - GREATER BATON ROUGE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $484,232 |
| EDNAVIGATOR INC | $445,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
366 repeat relationships — 258 still active in FY2024, 108 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +53%
- LFLSU FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +87%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL AREA5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- GTGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +152%
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +55%
OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
To promote architecture.
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…
The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ascend Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
524 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 524 of the 689 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds EDNAVIGATOR INC ↗
- Who funds Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROPEL AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc ↗
- Who funds METROMORPHOSIS ↗
- Who funds SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BLACK TEACHER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PAHARA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LEMNIS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Maison des Amis of Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of the Lake Foundation ↗
- Who funds GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries
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 Area Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
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.