How much did IRENE W AND C B PENNINGTON FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

operationmanship theatrepreventionupgraderepaircommunicationszachary

2021

health collectivecollective traumabertmanlittleconsultant writerhockey hallhall fame

2022

capitalrestorationcrisisgolden galasportsgirlsraise barn

2023

wfpsorouge advancedadvanced advocacyplaycajun navyombcupgrade

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k31 grants · $149k
$10k–50k57 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
$250k+5 grants · $1.5M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants

MCMANUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$400,000
EAST FELICIANA PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFICE$300,000
UNITED CAJUN NAVY$260,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE SPORTS & SOCIETY PROGRAM$250,000
SILLIMAN INSTITUTE$250,000
EAST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF'S OFFICE$210,000
CENTER FOR MIND BODY MEDICINE$190,000
WEST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF'S OFFICE$185,000
MISSION HEART INC$153,000
EAST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF'S OFFICE$136,798
BATON ROUGE GENERAL FOUNDATION$130,000
SLAUGHTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL$105,000
LSU TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$100,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$100,000
WEST FELICIANA PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFICE$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 7% of IRENE W AND C B PENNINGTON FOUNDATION’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. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

IRENE W AND C B PENNINGTON FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$18M · 111 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

111 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111

Total granted

$18M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+70%

Still filing today

38%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

SI
SILLIMAN INSTITUTE
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +68%
PB
PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $708k · revenue +43%
BR
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $607k · revenue +63%

Funded once

MZ
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH #2
one grant, 2021 · $205k
PA
PORT ALLEN EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -25% · 27% of their budget
CR
CRISTO REY BR FRANCISCAN HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lsu Research Foundation

Community Improvement

Future Athletes of Louisiana

Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…

Recreation & Sports

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in comformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Louisiana Childrens Museum

La children's museum contributes to the area's future prosperity by engaging children's potential and making that potential visible. through play shared explorations, and in dialogue with adults, lcm connects children to each other,…

Arts & Culture

Christus Health Southwestern Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

University of New Orleans Research 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.

Health

New Orleans Culinary &

To create world-class culinary and hospitality facilities, programs, and research that drive workforce and economic development for the new orleans region.

Unclassified

Baton Rouge General Medical Center

To provide high quality healthcare to the baton rouge area, regardless of patient race, creed, sex, national origin, age, or ability to pay and to promote the overall health of the community via wellness programs and medical education…

Health

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The louisiana endowment for the humanities is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to all louisianans. the mission is to provide all louisianans with access to and an appreciation of their own rich,…

Arts & Culture

Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education

Louisiana Wildlife Agents

To foster, protect and promote the welfare and interest of all classified commissioned wildlife enforcement agents, active or retired; to encourage and promote the constant improvement of public service rendered by the office of…

Animals

Louisiana Christian University

Operation of baptist college campus

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Pennington Biomedical Research. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/83

the rest of the field

11%

2,996/27,335

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.

06the grantee network

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/73

Grantees still filing

51/73

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,686,192Education$2,130,555Health$1,643,771Philanthropy$779,263Public Safety & Disaster$621,560Arts & Culture$585,000Human Services$228,900

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.

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.

Baton Rouge Area FoundationLA66.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Credit Bureau Of · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc

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 organisation IRENE W AND C B PENNINGTON FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED CAJUN NAVY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825013897 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNITED CAJUN NAVY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

IRENE W AND C B PENNINGTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation?

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IRENE W AND C B PENNINGTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation?

More from the funding graph