· Private foundation
J B Atkins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LA | $5,000 |
| SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER | $5,000 |
| FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING NWLA | $5,000 |
| STRAND THEATER | $5,000 |
| COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NORWELA COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| SHREVEPORT OPERA | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER | $500 |
| INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GREEN ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J B Atkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J B Atkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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