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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.

$114k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$219kHuman Services$50kEducation$46kEnvironment$42kYouth Development$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $103,923, the rows itemized in this filing. The $113,773 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$37,923
Median grant
1
States reached
$800k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS - SE LA CHAPTER: $11k → 23%JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 3 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$258k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $136k · revenue -60%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +110%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
    3× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • GI
    GRAND ISLE GARDEN CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
  • JP
    JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
    one grant, 2022 · $36k
  • CH
    CAFE HOPE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance

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.

Public Benefit
2
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
3
Roots of Renewal Nola

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…

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4
Louisiana Flood Risk Coalition

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.

Employment
5
Lowlander Center

The lowlander center supports lowland communities and places, both inland and coastal, facing climate change and coastal erosion. our strategic focus on adaptation and sustainability is driven by decade-long partnerships with historied and…

Community Improvement
6
Restore Grand Isle

To restore grand isle to the beautiful tourist area it once was

Recreation & Sports
7
Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc

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…

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9
New Orleans Neighborhood Development Foundation

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
Cajun Relief Foundation Inc

Cajun navy ground force activiates every citizens to be volunteers to stabilize aging and other vulnerable citizens impacted by natural disasters.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Home Builders Association of Northwest L

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…

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12
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together New Orleans; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $136,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA: $39,500 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN…JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $35,500 · OtherJEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS: $82,923 · PhilanthropyREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW…GRAND ISLE GARDEN CLUB: $42,000 · EnvironmentGRAND ISLE …CAFE HOPE INC: $23,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,250 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDAWN BUSTERS OF METAIRE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationNew Orleans Education League of the Construction Industry: $10,000 · Education
Other$211,000Philanthropy$82,923Environment$42,000Food & Nutrition$23,000Human Services$21,250Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $136,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS: $82,923 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA: $39,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAFE HOPE INC: $23,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Orleans Education League of the Construction Industry: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baptist Community Min…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…United Way of Southea…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jefferson Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jefferson Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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