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Bollinger Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$356k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$591kReligion$148kArts & Culture$55kEnvironment$50kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$25kRecreation & Sports$10kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRLMONT UNIVERSITY DONATION$200,000
COMPASSION CHURCHES$100,000
BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH$50,000
HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL: $1k → 9%COMPASSION CHURCHES: $100k → 13%BRLMONT UNIVERSITY DONATION: $200k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 7%NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $50k → 23%BRLMONT UNIVERSITY DONATION: $100k → 14%THE BLAKE TERRY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $10k → 23%MAX CHARTER SCHOOL: $5k → 17%NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $10k → 23%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 17%NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $10k → 23%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $12k → 17%NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $10k → 23%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $10k → 23%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%FRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $5k → 23%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7k → 17%FRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $5k → 23%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $160k → 23%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $100k → 23%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6k → 17%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6k → 17%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 17%BAYOU PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 17%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.

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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$668k · 5 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$668k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+14%

Still filing today

20%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • BU
    BRLMONT UNIVERSITY DONATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k
  • UO
    University of New Orleans Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $260k · revenue +12%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k

Funded once

  • SO
    SON OF A SAINT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • NS
    Nicholls State University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +85%
  • CC
    CANCER CRUSADERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +1%

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.

1
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
2
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
3
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-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…

Health
4
Lsu Alumni Association

The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…

5
Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation

The Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation (SLUF) is a 501(c)(3) corporation charged with securing, managing and stewarding private gifts in support of Southeastern Louisiana University. Private support increases the University's…

Education
6
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

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…

Health
7
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
8
Orleans Conservation Trust

The orleans conservation trust protects and restores natural lands- for people and wildlife, the health of our waters, and the character of our community. a private nonprofit organization, the trust acquires and manages land to enhance…

Environment
9
Saints & Pelicans Foundation (Fka Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal)

Saints & pelicans foundation promotes fund raising to help restore louisiana's fragile wetlands, which have been severely damaged by major hurricanes and the bp plc oil spill.

10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
New Orleans Botanical Garden Foundation

To support the new orleans botanical garden located in city park, which is the largest park in new orleans. the mission of the new orleans botanical garden is to cultivate, promote and inspire the knowledge, love, and appreciation of…

12
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Orleans Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bayou Playhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRLMONT UNIVERSITY DONATION — $300,000 · OtherBRLMONT UNIVERSITY DONATIONCOMPASSION CHURCHES — $100,000 · OtherCOMPASSION CHURCHESNATIONAL WWII MUSEUM — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL WWII MUSEUMTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC — $50,000 · OtherBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INCHOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH — $47,500 · OtherHOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH+4 more — $16,500 · OtherUniversity of New Orleans Foundation — $260,000 · EducationUniversity of New Orleans Foundati…Nicholls State University Foundation — $25,000 · EducationNicholls State University Foundati…SON OF A SAINT — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCANCER CRUSADERS INC — $5,000 · HealthBAYOU PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$614,000Education$285,000Youth Development$25,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation — $260,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNicholls State University Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER CRUSADERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBAYOU PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMAPLEBROOK SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds SON OF A SAINT
  • Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK
  • Who funds CANCER CRUSADERS INC
  • Who funds BAYOU PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL 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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bollinger Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bollinger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bollinger Family 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 15 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.

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