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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $466,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,357,683 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,890,933 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 $10k8 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Terrebonne Churches United Food Bank | $65,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $55,000 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux | $45,000 |
| Fletcher Tech Comm College Foundation | $27,000 |
| Lifted by Love | $20,000 |
| Rebuilding Together-Bayou | $20,000 |
| Bless Your Heart | $20,000 |
| The Start Corporation | $16,250 |
| Wallace Community Center | $15,500 |
| New Life Counseling Center | $15,000 |
| Bayou Civic Club | $15,000 |
| Les Reflections Du Bayou | $12,000 |
| Faith Ministries International | $11,000 |
| Firm Foundation of Houma | $10,000 |
| Foundation for Terrebonne General Health Systems | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $434k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 13% of Bayou Community 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, 35% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 27% — less 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.
43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 13 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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
- HEHOPE EXTREME INC2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +5%
- BHBunk House Shelter Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +16%
- NSNicholls State University Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MDMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $1.4M
- MDMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICEone grant, 2023 · $929k
- OLOur Lady of the Isle Catholic Churchone grant, 2023 · $877k
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 provide for the material and spiritual needs of the homeless, hungry, and displaced of Northeast Louisiana, and to facilitate and assist them in getting out of the cycle of poverty.
The primary function of the Tensas Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving the…
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.
Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income elderly and low income disabled homeowners
Supportive housing and substance use disorder treatment prorgrams serve the community by providing support and counseling to families and individuals who struggle with substance use disorders, homelessness, mental illness and/or hiv/aids.
Public Charity
Dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families residing in the Diocese of Biloxi through direct and indirect services.
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…
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Terrebonne Council On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is We Can All Ring Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 130 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
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 Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds Fletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYOU CIVIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE EXTREME INC ↗
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 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
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 Bayou Community 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.
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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