· Private foundation
First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $27,000 |
| RED RIVER REVEL INC | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT | $20,000 |
| BARKSDALE FORWARDINC | $15,000 |
| COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUS | $10,000 |
| CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF | $5,000 |
| RED RIVER STEM INC | $5,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those 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 +46% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +46%
- RRRED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +13%
- CCCAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MLMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +11%
- SFSTEP FORWARDone grant, 2019 · $7k
- OHOakwood Home for Women Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -53%
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 sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
Shreveport Common Inc mission is to facilitate public/private partnerships to implement the Shreveport Common Vision Plan for an Arts-Inspired revitalization of Shreveport Common to an UNcommon Creative Cultural Community.
The Robinson Film Center is a 501c3 Not for Profit arts organization based in Shreveport, LA. Our mission is to provide a venue for independent, international, and classic cinema while serving as a resource for film production and media…
Promote and support development of the local Shreveport Symphony, the Nena Plant Wideman competition, and to further the appreciation of symphonic music and allied arts through education
Cultural artistic performances to promote and preserve the art of classical ballet in the community
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
Shreveport chamber of commerce provides various projects thoughout the year for chamber members.
To be a provider of top quality education to a highly diverse student body. it will prepare all students for success in college, equip them with the ability and desire for lifelong learning, and strengthen their civic, ethical, and moral…
Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes
To provide cultural enhancement in northeast louisiana through concerts, art, and similar projects.
Assistance in economic development.
The bossier arts council is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and providing cultural events and programming in order to enhance the quality of life and to develope a cultural identity for bossier parish.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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 THE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER STEM INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT OPERA ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Oakwood Home for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEAMED RICE INC FKA SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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 North Louisiana · The Powers Foundation Inc · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · J B Atkins Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · Noel Foundation Inc · Shreveport Regional Arts Council · Jack Webster Grigsby Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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