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Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge at a glance

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Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge

Inner wheel club of baton rouge is a non-profit organization dedicated to service and friendship.

$172k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$321kHuman Services$300kHousing & Shelter$246kPhilanthropy$60kEducation$34kArts & Culture$29kCrime & Legal$7kEmployment$7k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $160,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $172,183 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,183 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION$60,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE$20,000
MCMAIN'S CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTER$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE$20,000
BATON ROUGE REGIONAL EYE BANK$20,000
REDEMPTORIST ST GERARD SCHOOL$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE: $122k → 19%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE: $27k → 19%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE: $20k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $16k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $7k → 19%BRAVE HEART CHILDREN IN NEED: $6k → 19%IRIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $7k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$784k · 8 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$784k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $233k · revenue +23%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $231k · revenue +153%
  • BR
    BATON ROUGE REGIONAL EYE BANK INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $153k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • LF
    LOPA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +23%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
  • LL
    LOUISIANA LUPUS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue -80% · 54% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Center Inc

BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.

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2
The Arc Baton Rouge

To improve the quality of life of children and adults with development disabilites and their families through advocacy services and support

Human Services
3
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

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.

Philanthropy
4
Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center

To offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide, homicide and violence.

Health
5
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

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6
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
7
The Bridge Center for Hope

The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.

Health
8
Bayou Area Habitat for Humanity

Construct homes for low-income families.

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9
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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10
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.

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11
Carc Inc

To provide services to mentally and physically handicapped persons (clients) in southwest louisiana through client services, adult habilitation, residential services, supervised independent living and respite services.

Human Services
12
Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC: $233,246 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE IN…CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC: $51,491 · OtherCEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON RO…THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $43,331 · OtherTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGEREDEMPTORIST ST GERARD SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $19,480 · OtherLOUISIANA LUPUS FOUNDATION: $16,496 · Other+4 more: $27,200 · Other+4 moreSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE COUNCIL: $230,900 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL …THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $23,425 · Human ServicesTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM+2 more: $12,936 · Human ServicesBATON ROUGE REGIONAL EYE BANK INC: $152,720 · HealthBATON ROUGE REGIONAL EY…LOPA FOUNDATION: $24,350 · HealthLOPA FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $19,686 · HealthALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF…+2 more: $12,936 · Health+2 moreBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyMETANOIA INC: $29,291 · Arts & CultureThrive Foundation: $7,305 · EducationFranciscan Baton Rouge Inc: $6,750 · EducationBATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $7,305 · Youth DevelopmentHERITAGE RANCH: $6,045 · Youth Development
Other$411,244Human Services$267,261Health$209,692Philanthropy$60,000Arts & Culture$29,291Education$14,055Youth Development$13,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC: $233,246 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL BATON ROUGE COUNCIL: $230,900 over 5y, 16% of budgetBATON ROUGE REGIONAL EYE BANK INC: $152,720 over 4y, 13% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC: $51,491 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $43,331 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETANOIA INC: $29,291 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLOPA FOUNDATION: $24,350 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $23,425 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $19,686 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOUISIANA LUPUS FOUNDATION: $16,496 over 1y, 54% of budgetThrive Foundation: $7,305 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $7,305 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRIEF RECOVERY CENTER: $7,305 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLOUISIANA INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED: $7,305 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $6,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $6,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFranciscan Baton Rouge Inc: $6,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC: $6,186 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER OF BATON ROUGE: $6,186 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHERITAGE RANCH: $6,045 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALS ASSOCIATION LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI CH: $6,045 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Baton Rouge Area Foun…The Huey & Angelina W…Albemarle FoundationThe Credit Bureau of …Capital Area United W…The Merice Boo Johnst…Shell USA Company Fou…Irene W & Cb Penningt…The Charles Lamar Fam…Attic Trash and Treas…William Edwin Montan …Rotary Club of Baton …
Baton Rouge Area FoundationLA40.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Attic Trash and Treasure · William Edwin Montan Charitable Trust · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge?

    Find your warmest path to Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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