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· Public charity

Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana

To enhance the catholic churches, parishes, schools and services in the communities of south louisiana.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$687k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$4.0MEducation$3.1MHuman Services$132kHealth$84kInternational$71kArts & Culture$63kFood & Nutrition$61kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $1,670,815, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,839,304 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,489 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $585k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $332k
  • $250k+1 grant · $687k
$15,574
Median grant
3
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAC DONELL UNITED METHODIST: $15k → 16%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $6k → 23%CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $22k → 17%LAFOURCHE ARC: $20k → 17%CROSSROAD PREGNANCY CENTER: $19k → 17%BAYOU LAND FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $10k → 17%BAYOU LAND FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $10k → 17%CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CTR: $9k → 17%CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CTR: $7k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
PA
CO
NE
KY
DC
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 45 repeat orgs$521k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
34

Total granted

$7.0M
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

20%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +1%
  • NO
    New Orleans Ballet Association
    5× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +47%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
    2× · 2023–2025 · $39k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +25%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • HI
    HI-5 INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dubourg Home Dba Place Dubourg Apartments

Provides housing for elderly and disabled persons and families under section 207/223(f) of the national housing act under an agreement with the department of hud.

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2
Together Louisiana

Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…

Public Benefit
3
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
4
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
5
Protect Louisiana Values

Promote family values in louisiana

—
6
Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Alexis Foundation

alexis foundation is a Christian organization with the purpose of assisting Maison Des Enfants De Dieu (Hereafter "Maison")in its efforts to find, rescue, feed, house and care for orphaned, abandoned and neglected children, and support the…

Philanthropy
8
Catholic Social and Community Services

Dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families residing in the Diocese of Biloxi through direct and indirect services.

Human Services
9
Congenital Heart Foundation of Louisiana

Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.

Health
10
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.

—
11
Haiti Episcopal Learning Programs Foundation

The mission of Haiti Episcopal Learning Program Foundation is the coordination of local support for Episcopal educational missions in southern Haiti.

Religion
12
House of Tulip

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

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Terrebonne Inc; 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
12/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX: $2,811,049 · OtherTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUXE D WHITE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $416,760 · OtherE D WHITE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLVANDEBILT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $297,840 · OtherCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $248,767 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES: $212,441 · Other+64 more: $1,706,756 · Other+64 moreHoly Trinity Academy: $930,024 · EducationHoly Trinity AcademyNicholls State University Foundation: $547,750 · EducationNicholls State Univers…+3 more: $44,835 · EducationCROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE: $56,957 · Human ServicesBayou Land Families Helping Families: $20,000 · Human ServicesLAFOURCHE ARC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMacDonell United Methodist Children's Services Inc: $14,500 · Human ServicesCASA OF THE 16TH JDC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMORNING STAR RISING: $6,000 · Human ServicesHAITI MISSION INC: $43,500 · InternationalSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $27,000 · InternationalNew Orleans Ballet Association: $51,800 · Arts & CultureBAYOU PLAYHOUSE INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $39,215 · Food & NutritionTerrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc: $15,500 · Food & NutritionSt Vincent de Paul TriParish Community Pharmacy: $20,000 · HealthThe Haven Inc: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · Health
Other$5,693,613Education$1,522,609Human Services$127,457International$70,500Arts & Culture$63,300Food & Nutrition$54,715Health$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHoly Trinity Academy: $930,024 over 3y, 29% of budgetNicholls State University Foundation: $547,750 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE: $56,957 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetNew Orleans Ballet Association: $51,800 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHAITI MISSION INC: $43,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $39,215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBayou Community Foundation: $38,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $33,335 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul TriParish Community Pharmacy: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBayou Land Families Helping Families: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLAFOURCHE ARC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetV FOUNDATION OF SOUTH LOUISIANA: $16,870 over 1y, 22% of budgetTerrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCASA OF TERREBONNE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Haven Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMacDonell United Methodist Children's Services Inc: $14,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSaint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDiocese of Soroti Mission Partnersh: $12,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCASA OF THE 16TH JDC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHOPE EXTREME INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSPRINGS IN THE DESERT: $8,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORNING STAR RISING: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAXINE GIARDINA CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Holy Trinity Academy ↗
  • Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE ↗
  • Who funds New Orleans Ballet Association ↗
  • Who funds HAITI MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Bayou Community Found…The Greater New Orlea…Danos FoundationThe John and Clara Br…Baton Rouge Area Foun…James J Buquet Jr Fam…The Gray FoundationThe Edward L Rispone …Shell USA Company Fou…The Mary & Al Danos F…United Way for South …
Community Foundation of AcadianaLA30.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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