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Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF LOUISIANA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $909k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $610k
$33,333
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY$360,000
TOGETHER LOUISIANA$250,000
MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$121,250
MARKET UMBRELLA$100,000
LAUNCH$100,000
MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER$100,000
LOUISIANA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$100,000
OPERATION RESTORATION$100,000
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER$100,000
FEEDING LOUISIANA$97,567
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION$86,400
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS INC$75,000
FLETCHER TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$70,000
NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER$60,250
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$60,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%POINT COUPEE EARLY CHILDHOOD COALITION INC: $33k → 17%OPTIONS INC: $25k → 20%POLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $100k → 22%GIVING HOPE INC: $40k → 23%HOPE FOR OPELOUSAS INC: $50k → 28%TENSAS COUNCIL ON THE AGING INC: $25k → 35%MADISON VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $25k → 37%EAST CARROLL VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 42%ST TERESA CENTER FOR WORKS OF MERCY: $25k → 18%AHECS FOR A HEALTHY LOUISIANA INC: $100k → 20%POLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $40k → 22%CLOVER FORMERLY KINGSLEY HOUSE INC: $100k → 23%AHECS FOR A HEALTHY LOUISIANA INC: $50k → 20%AHECS FOR A HEALTHY LOUISIANA INC: $50k → 20%CENTER OF HOPE FOR TANGIPAHOA: $50k → 20%KINGSLEY HOUSE INC: $100k → 23%AHECS FOR A HEALTHY LOUISIANA INC: $50k → 20%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $50k → 24%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $50k → 22%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $50k → 17%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $45k → 23%THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $50k → 22%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30k → 23%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30k → 23%JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING: $50k → 15%WEST OUACHITA SENIOR CENTER: $44k → 24%ONE HEART NOLA: $50k → 15%CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%MARTIN LUTHER KING NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $50k → 22%ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 17%SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $75k → 23%SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $50k → 23%SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $50k → 23%THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS: $100k → 23%HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY A NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $50k → 19%OPERATION RESTORATION: $150k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $100k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $50k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $50k → 23%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $50k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $250k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $93k → 19%HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS: $50k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC: $93k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $84k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC: $50k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $50k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $50k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana 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, 95% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 95 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

95 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
172

Total granted

$18M
$9.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+12%

Still filing today

78%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $922k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $690k · revenue +129%
  • MB
    MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $427k · revenue +182%
  • CR
    CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $427k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue -7%
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LAKE CHARLES
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • MARCH OF DIMES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health
2
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
3
Invest in Louisiana

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.

Public Benefit
4
Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…

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5
Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…

Community Improvement
6
Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation

Promote and develop economic opportunity to those in need of increased ecomonic opportunity; to promote the education and welfare of the people of the community; and to form special interest groups as it deems necessary to solve special…

Human Services
7
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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8
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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9
For Providers by Providers Louisiana

Provides quality training for early education providers

Education
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New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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11
The Arc of Greater New Orleans

Arc of Greater New Orleans is committed to securing for all people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to develop, function, and live to their fullest potential

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12
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Recovery House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Education & Developme…Membership and Trade Organi…Pet Rescue and Spay-Neuter …Mardi Gras Parade Organizat…Private Family FoundationsDisability Services & Housi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/261
the rest of the field
18%
2,390/13,448

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.

05the grantee network

241 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. 241 of the 299 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
60
Early backer (in before they grew)
232/241
Grantees still filing
150/241
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc — $1,100,000 · OtherUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana IncNORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,080,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITYLSUA — $731,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $686,160 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA INC — $650,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC — $517,000 · Other+93 more — $9,965,471 · Other+93 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA — $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $600,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AR…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $455,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NE…NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSHORE COM…United Way of Acadiana Inc — $293,705 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of …Community Foundation of Acadiana — $200,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY — $150,000 · Philanthropy+11 more — $883,334 · Philanthropy+11 moreMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER — $427,230 · HealthMARY BIRD PE…MAYOR'S HEALTHY CITY INITIATIVE — $320,000 · HealthMAYOR'S HEAL…MARCH OF DIMES INC — $300,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIM…Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc — $295,000 · HealthFamily and Y…LOUISIANA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $230,000 · HealthLOUISIANA PU…David Raines Community Health Center Inc — $225,000 · HealthDavid Raines…MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY — $172,427 · HealthPEER INITIATIVE LEADERS OF TOMORROW — $150,000 · HealthGINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $135,000 · HealthOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $134,500 · Health504HEALTHNET INC — $133,334 · HealthLaunch — $125,000 · Health+9 more — $612,100 · Health+9 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC — $689,963 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CH…OPERATION RESTORATION — $300,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION R…AHEC'S FOR A HEALTHY LOUISIANA INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesAHEC'S FOR …CLOVER NOLA INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesCLOVER NOLA…SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS — $175,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTR…POLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $120,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $105,000 · Human Services+19 more — $1,036,159 · Human Services+19 moreFletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc — $430,000 · EducationFletcher Te…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $426,665 · EducationCAL RIPKEN …LOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $274,426 · EducationLOYOLA UNIV…SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM — $259,200 · EducationSOUTHERN UN…THREE OCLOCK PROJECT — $250,000 · EducationTHREE OCLOC…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $200,256 · EducationTHE ADMINIS…MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationMCNEESE STA…NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER — $180,750 · EducationNEW ORLEANS…University of New Orleans Foundation — $120,000 · Education+10 more — $687,052 · Education+10 moreBayou Community Foundation — $575,000 · Community ImprovementSULPHUR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY COALITION — $275,000 · Community ImprovementMARKETUMBRELLAORG — $125,000 · Community Improvement100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD — $125,000 · Community ImprovementBATON ROUGE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementNOLA BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF GRAND ISLE INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementSON OF A SAINT — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVERBACK SOCIETY — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentProvidence Road Outreach Mission — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BUDDY PROGRAM — $50,500 · Youth DevelopmentHERITAGE RANCH — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRANDPARENTS RAISING GRAND CHILDREN INFORMATION CENTER OF LA — $33,334 · Youth DevelopmentunCommon Construction Inc — $33,333 · Youth Development
Other$14,729,631Philanthropy$3,982,039Health$3,259,591Human Services$3,036,122Education$3,028,349Community Improvement$1,300,000Youth Development$777,167

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc — $1,100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA — $1,100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC — $689,963 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBayou Community Foundation — $575,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC — $517,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $455,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc — $430,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER — $427,230 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $426,665 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC — $375,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAYOR'S HEALTHY CITY INITIATIVE — $320,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA — $306,030 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $305,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $300,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc — $295,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFRONT YARD BIKES — $295,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetUnited Way of Acadiana Inc — $293,705 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSULPHUR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY COALITION — $275,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $274,426 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM — $259,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST JOHN UNITED WAY — $250,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTerrebonne Economic Development Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHREE OCLOCK PROJECT — $250,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTogether Louisiana — $250,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $250,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAHEC'S FOR A HEALTHY LOUISIANA INC — $250,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetMED-CAMPS OF LOUISIANA INC — $245,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLOUISIANA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $230,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDavid Raines Community Health Center Inc — $225,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA Inc — $218,333 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $200,256 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Acadiana — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLOVER NOLA INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD SDA-83 INC — $200,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER — $180,750 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS — $175,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY — $172,427 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPOLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC — $160,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY — $150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPEER INITIATIVE LEADERS OF TOMORROW — $150,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetFEEDING LOUISIANA — $147,567 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDRENS COALITION FOR NORTHEAST LOUISIANA — $140,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $134,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget504HEALTHNET INC — $133,334 over 2y, 16% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baton Rouge Area Foun…The Huey & Angelina W…Baptist Community Min…United Way of Southea…Community Foundation …Capital Area United W…Entergy Charitable Fo…Foundation for Louisi…The Credit Bureau of …The Merice Boo Johnst…New Orleans Community…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA87.3× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 299 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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