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Jefferson Community Foundation
The JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (jcf) is a non-profit organization dedicated to effective utilization of donated funds to address critical community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $103,923 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $113,773 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ORLEANS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $40,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS | $37,923 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $16,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NONEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY3× · 2022–2024 · $136k · revenue -60%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +41%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA3× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GIGRAND ISLE GARDEN CLUBone grant, 2022 · $42k
- JPJEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMone grant, 2022 · $36k
- CHCAFE HOPE INCone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -41%
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.
The Greater New Orleans Housing Alliances GNOHA mission is to collaborate and support member efforts to build affordable housing for the residents of the Greater New Orleans area in an ethical and efficient manner.
Roots of renewal is committed to holistic solutions for the root causes of violence so that forgotten neighborhoods can reach their full potential. the purpose of roots of renewal is to address the educational, economic, and racial…
Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
Established in 1955, the home builders association of northwest louisiana is a non-profit professional trade association. it is affiliated with the louisiana home builders association and the national association of home builders, and is…
To help low to moderate income families to become homeowners, with the specific aim of placing at least 100 low and moderate income families in their own homes each year.
HousingNOLAs mission is to provide a road map to maximize the effectiveness of scarce government resources, increasing non-traditional resources, and assisting private sector investors in making strategic choices. HousingNOLA is a 10-year…
To restore grand isle to the beautiful tourist area it once was
The entity was established to advocate for reform of the national flood insurance program in order to develop responsible floodplain management within coastal and riverine communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is Grand Isle Garden Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLE GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CAFE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DAWN BUSTERS OF METAIRE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Education League of the Construction Industry ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jefferson Community 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.