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Bayou Community Foundation
Bayou Community Foundations strengthens Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish and Grand Isle, LA through philanthropic leadership to create a vibrant and diverse community where all can thrive.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $467k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 47
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Bayou Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $467k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $2.9M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $2.7M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $200k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $194k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $267k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mennonite Disaster Service | $929,316 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Lady of the Isle Catholic Church | $876,840 | 1 | n/a |
| Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation | $362,758 | 2 | 61% |
| Rebuilding Together Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc | $79,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $55,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc | $47,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Houma Thibodaux | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bayou Civic Club Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Life Counseling Center Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 29% |
Show all 46 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mennonite Disaster Service | $929,316 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Lady of the Isle Catholic Church | $876,840 | 1 | n/a |
| Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation | $362,758 | 2 | 61% |
| Rebuilding Together Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc | $79,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $55,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc | $47,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Houma Thibodaux | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bayou Civic Club Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Life Counseling Center Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Hope Extreme Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Crossroads Pregnancy Resource Cente | $25,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Les Reflections Du Bayou | $22,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifted by Love | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Vincent de Paul TriParish Community Pharmacy | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Rebuilding Together New Orleans | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nicholls State University Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bunk House Shelter Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Bayou Youth Equity Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| A Place of Restoration | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| First Baptist Church of Houma La | $19,665 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Ministries International | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Casa of Terrebonne Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 2% |
| START Corporation | $16,250 | 1 | 0% |
| St Francis Vegetable Garden Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Seneca Family of Agencies | $15,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lafourche Education Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 10% |
| The Haven Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Womens Restoration Inc | $11,400 | 1 | 8% |
| Candid | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Louisiana Veteran Outreach | $10,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Friends of Grand Isle Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Roman Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Terrebonne Council on Aging Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lafourche Parish Council on Aging Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence in Public Education | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Terrebonne Arc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Terrebonne General Health System | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Blessed Assurance Outreach Ministries | $8,672 | 1 | n/a |
| One Day at a Time Club | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hap Helping All People | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beacon Light Baptist Church of Houma | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bags of Hope | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Can All Ring Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hi-5 Inc | $5,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $5,636 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bayou Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Danos Foundation · Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · James J Buquet Jr Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · The Mary & Al Danos Family Foundation · The Gray Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Fourchon Oilman's Association Inc · United Way for South Louisiana
How this is measured
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About Bayou Community Foundation
- How much does Bayou Community Foundation give?
- Bayou Community Foundation reported 29 itemized grants totaling $466,750, out of $4,357,683 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 47 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Bayou Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (51%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Bayou Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mennonite Disaster Service ($929k), Our Lady of the Isle Catholic Church ($877k), Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation ($363k).
- Does Bayou Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bayou Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Danos Foundation, Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana.
- Where is Bayou Community Foundation based?
- Bayou Community Foundation is based in LA.
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