· Public charity
Foundation for Louisiana
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA is the people's foundation.
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 40 grants below total $1,853,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,080,063 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $226,263 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE | $175,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $155,590 |
| PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $100,000 |
| LOUISIANA ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS | $90,000 |
| LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT | $90,000 |
| FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA'S INCARCERATED CHILDREN | $85,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $85,000 |
| OPERATION RESTORATION | $84,000 |
| VOICES OF THE EXPERIENCED | $75,000 |
| LOUISIANA BUDGET PROJECT | $65,000 |
| EXTENSIVE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC | $57,500 |
| NONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC | $50,000 |
| EARTHWORKS | $50,000 |
| STEP UP LOUISIANA ORGANIZING FUND | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Foundation for Louisiana’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 17 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $481k 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
- PSPROJECT SOUTH INC6× · 2017–2023 · $601k · revenue +127%
- OROPERATION RESTORATION7× · 2018–2025 · $397k · revenue +46%
- FAFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- LNLEDE NEW ORLEANS INCone grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -29% · 61% of their budget
- PCPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +86%
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.
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
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…
To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
The Water Collaborative seeks to build a diverse network for all impacted by flood risk by focusing on equitable practices to sustainably live and thrive with water.
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…
Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…
To develop and connect leaders and citizens to drive transformative change for a better louisiana. through its work, the organization seeks to transform louisiana into a dynamic, future-ready economy that offers every citizen and business…
The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…
Founded in 2001, The Urban Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and advocacy that promotes the wise stewardship of the urban built environment and local economies.
Infrastructure Solutions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Concerned Citizens of St John. 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 14 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
208 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. 208 of the 277 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Women With A Vision ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds HousingNOLA ↗
- Who funds Peoples Institute For Survival and Beyond ↗
- Who funds LEDE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Sponsoring Committee (BISCO) Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE ↗
- Who funds POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITIES CONSULTING INC ↗
- Who funds Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition ↗
- Who funds Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ ↗
- Who funds DANCING GROUNDS ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROW DAT YOUTH FARM ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Baptist Community Ministries · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Keller Family 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 Foundation for 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.