· Public charity
Contractors Educational Trust Fund
To fund educational programs and professorships at universities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $160,137 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $169,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,000 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 · FY2022
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLETCHER COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $52,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LA MONROE | $43,148 |
| UL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LSU FOUNDATION | $19,489 |
| TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNCOMMON CONSTRUCTION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 79% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LFLSU FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $109k · revenue +76%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $85k · revenue +80%
- SLSOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- MSMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +18%
- NSNicholls State University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +93%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTEone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The lsue foundation supports programs and activities designed to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to advance, promote or otherwise benefit lsu eunice.
The Foundation supports the development and promotion of Lamar University, its students, faculty and staff. The Lamar University Foundation supports and enhances Lamar University by encouraging the commitment of personal and financial…
The lsu real estate and facilities foundation's mission is to promote the educational and cultural welfare of lsu, and to develop, expand and improve the lsu's usefulness to the citizens of louisiana and the united states of america and to…
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…
-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…
Promote educational and cultural welfare of the University of Louisiana System and its universities, to develop, expand, and improve the Systems facilities so as to provide broader education advantages and opportunities for Louisiana…
The foundation is organized and operated exclusively to support and benefit northwestern state university of louisiana, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. the foundation qualifies as a type iii…
Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi
Support of louisiana tech university, a state supported institution of higher learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu Foundation and the most unlike its peers is UnCommon Construction Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 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.
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds unCommon Construction Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Contractors Educational Trust Fund 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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