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Franco-American Benevolent % C Benjamin Landry
THE MISSION OF THE SOCIETY IS TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN PROMOTING MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF THE USA AND THOSE OF FRANCE.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FRENCH-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAN FRANCISCO | $15,000 |
| ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $6,000 |
| EPISCOPAL SCH OF ACADIANA | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CLUB OF PARIS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE ARTS ARENA | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN WOMEN'S GROUP IN PARIS | $5,000 |
| LETOILE DU NORD FRENCH IMMERSION PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN AID SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF AMERICANS RESIDENT OVERSEAS (1901 ASS) | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION PARIS POST | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 US giving — 73% of grant dollars ($578k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($219k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Beyond the US — 27% of all-years giving ($219k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Franco-American Benevolent % C Benjamin Landry’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 +13% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- FIFESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE3× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +13%
- AFALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE SACRAMENTO5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +63%
- UOUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- LALES AMIS DE L'IMMERSION FRANCAISE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SLSAINT LUC FRENCH IMMERSION AND CULTURAL CAMPUSone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -100%
- CACONTEMPO ARTS PRODUCTIONone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…
art education
Hosts an annual French Film Festival during four days every March where French filmmakers present their new films to the American public and discuss with the public their creative cinematic processes before and after screenings. Master…
Promotion of the French language
Promote knowledge of French language
The organization conducts a festival which is produced as a community service.proceeds of the festival are in part dedicated to the production of future festivals and to fund scholarships and apprenticeships for french language immersion,…
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
The alliance francaise de seattle is a dynamic educational and cultural 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of washington, whose mission is to promote the french language and francophone cultures through diverse…
The purpose of the Organization is to assist the French community in the San Francisco Bay Area in the preservation of the French heritage; to plan sponsor and organize the Bastille Day Celebration in San Francisco on the second Saturday…
EFSAC 's mission is to provide Educational and Cultural Classes to Children in the Sacramento Area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Festival International De Louisiane and the most unlike its peers is NuNu Arts and Culture Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 50 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 FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUC FRENCH IMMERSION AND CULTURAL CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE SACRAMENTO ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LA FONDATION LOUISIANE ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NuNu Arts and Culture Collective ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds L'ETOILE DU NORD FRENCH IMMERSION PARENT ORGANIZATION ↗
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 · 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 Franco-American Benevolent % C Benjamin Landry 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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