· Public charity
Contractors Educational Trust Fund
To fund educational programs and professorships at universities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Contractors Educational Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Contractors Educational Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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