· Public charity
Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana
To enhance the catholic churches, parishes, schools and services in the communities of south louisiana.
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.
The 41 grants below total $1,670,815 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,839,304 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $168,489 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $585k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $332k
- $250k+1 grant · $687k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIOCESE OF HOUMA-THIBODAUX | $686,982 |
| HOLY TRINITY ACADEMY | $245,024 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES | $86,919 |
| VANDEBILT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $48,405 |
| ED WHITE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $48,027 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $39,723 |
| HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $33,997 |
| ST GENEVIEVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $30,103 |
| MARIA IMMACOLATA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $27,400 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $27,336 |
| ST MARY'S NATIVITY SCHOOL | $26,928 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH | $22,081 |
| HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,942 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL TRI-PARISH PHARMACY | $20,000 |
| ST BERNADETTE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $18,784 |
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 (FY19–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
- CPCROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE4× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +1%
- NONew Orleans Ballet Association5× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +47%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA2× · 2023–2025 · $39k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +25%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2023 · $26k
- HIHI-5 INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
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.
The mission of Haiti Episcopal Learning Program Foundation is the coordination of local support for Episcopal educational missions in southern Haiti.
Building an inheritance by creating housing solutions for the trans and gender nonconforming TGNC community in Louisiana. The organization endeavors to acquire a separate space to serve as a community ce
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Terrebonne Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 89 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.
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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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Bayou Community Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Danos Foundation · The John and Clara Brady Family Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · James J Buquet Jr Family Foundation · The Gray Foundation · The Edward L Rispone Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Mary & Al Danos Family Foundation · United Way for South Louisiana
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 Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana 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.
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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