· Private foundation
J B Atkins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER | $5,000 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LA | $5,000 |
| STRAND THEATER | $5,000 |
| FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING NWLA | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| SHREVEPORT OPERA | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NORWELA COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 99% of your 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.
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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SSSOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +11%
- SGSHREVEPORT GREEN7× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +106%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SGSHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +85%
- SRSTEAMED RICE INC FKA SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -99%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Shreveport Common Inc mission is to facilitate public/private partnerships to implement the Shreveport Common Vision Plan for an Arts-Inspired revitalization of Shreveport Common to an UNcommon Creative Cultural Community.
To be a provider of top quality education to a highly diverse student body. it will prepare all students for success in college, equip them with the ability and desire for lifelong learning, and strengthen their civic, ethical, and moral…
Promote and support development of the local Shreveport Symphony, the Nena Plant Wideman competition, and to further the appreciation of symphonic music and allied arts through education
Shreveport chamber of commerce provides various projects thoughout the year for chamber members.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
To manage cultural events while preserving the state theatre of louisiana - the historic strand.
To actively pursue, support, facilitate and welcome initiatives that aid and encourage private development, and promote and coordinate public development within the downtown development district of shreveport, louisiana.
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
Assistance in economic development.
Cultural artistic performances to promote and preserve the art of classical ballet in the community
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shreveport Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan Counseling Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GREEN ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT OPERA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215 ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEAMED RICE INC FKA SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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 North Louisiana · The Powers Foundation Inc · The Crow Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Noel Foundation Inc · Zadeck Family Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Nelson Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana 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 organization J B Atkins 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.
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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