· Private foundation
Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k32 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCMANUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $400,000 |
| EAST FELICIANA PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $300,000 |
| UNITED CAJUN NAVY | $260,000 |
| SILLIMAN INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE SPORTS & SOCIETY PROGRAM | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| LSU TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WEST FELICIANA PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 83%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
110 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GHGENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +88%
- SISILLIMAN INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +81%
- PBPENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $793k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MZMOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH NO 2one grant, 2021 · $205k
- 1J18TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICEone grant, 2020 · $100k
- PFPARISHWIDE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
To develop a coordinated cancer research and educational program that will optimize discovery and development of innovative cancer therapies; lead to innovative clinial treatment programs offering new opportunities for early detection,…
To promote architecture.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
How this is measured
88 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. 88 of the 184 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 GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILLIMAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Cajun Navy ↗
- Who funds MISSION HEART INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Slaughter Community Charter School ↗
- Who funds NORTH DELTA SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds LINE 4 LINE ↗
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: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Albemarle Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Sharon and Claude B Pennington Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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