· Private foundation
Bayou Research Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LLBC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LOUISIANA APPLESEED | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA | $1,700 |
| THE LINKS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| 232-HELP | $1,500 |
| ST RAYMOND ST LEO THE GREAT | $1,000 |
| PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUN | $1,000 |
| CLIMB | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL | $950 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - NATCHIDOCHES | $200 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA | $100 |
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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CFCENTER FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY6× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +39%
- NCNATIONAL CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +11%
- OSOLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- LJLOUISIANA JUDICIAL COUNCIL - NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
- LJLA JUNETEENTH ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BHBLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL OF LOUISIANAone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -14%
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 support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
The louisiana bar foundation exists to preserve, honor, and improve our system of justice by funding, developing or otherwise promoting efforts which enhance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system and…
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…
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…
Work toward ending sexual violence through education, program support, and social change
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
To improve opportunities for cancer research in Louisiana and enhance educational efforts regarding prevention and control over cancer.
To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.
Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
-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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 70 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 CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Louisiana First Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds OLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 232-HELP INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' COMPENSATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 70805 INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION 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 Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Scott Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Research Institute 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.
- International Workers' Compensation Foundation Inc — 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.
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