· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Bless Your Heart | $20,000 |
| Lifted by Love | $20,000 |
| Rebuilding Together-Bayou | $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 |
| Foundation for Terrebonne General Health Systems | $10,000 |
| Firm Foundation of Houma | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Bayou Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 27%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HEHOPE EXTREME INC2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +5%
- NSNicholls State University Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
- BHBunk House Shelter Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +16%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 130 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bayou Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bayou Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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