Louisiana · Private foundation
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $33,333
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $360,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 143
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $865k 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 | 57 | $3.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $3.2M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $4.8M | 51% |
| FY2021 | 105 | $7.3M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 143 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc | $1,100,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc | $689,963 | 4 | 8% |
| Catholic Charities of Acadiana Inc | $650,000 | 3 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Louisiana Inc | $517,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Fletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc | $430,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center | $427,230 | 2 | 0% |
| Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc | $426,665 | 4 | 2% |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $375,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mayor's Healthy City Initiative | $320,000 | 2 | 8% |
| The Food Bank of Central Louisiana | $306,030 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 251 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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 · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Capital Area United Way · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation with peer funders
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About Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
- How much does Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation give?
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $3,049,392 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 143 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Health (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ($1.1M), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc ($690k), Catholic Charities of Acadiana Inc ($650k).
- Does Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation.
- Where is Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation based?
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is based in LA.
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