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Joyce S Mudd Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Health$259kEducation$142kHousing & Shelter$94kHuman Services$42kAnimals$30kEnvironment$20kYouth Development$11kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$590k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LSU Health Sciences Foundation$67,500
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$32,500
Southwest Louisiana Veteran's Home$19,670
Humane Society of Northwest Louisiana$11,000
Making A New Way$11,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Blue Grass$8,500
Lexington Humane Society$7,500
First Baptist Church School$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Renesting Project Inc: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$229k · 4 repeat orgs$391k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$229k
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24’25
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $128k · revenue -15%
  • SL
    Southwest Louisiana Veterans Home
    3× · 2021–2025 · $70k
  • LH
    LSU Health Foundation Shreveport
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18k

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $91k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    Centenary College
    one grant, 2021 · $51k
  • NL
    NW LA Veteran's Home
    one grant, 2022 · $38k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Louisiana Spca Foundation Inc

To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
2
Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in Shreveport

The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.

Philanthropy
3
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
4
Humane Society of South Mississippi

The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.

Animals
5
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
6
Humane Society of Harris County

Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…

7
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
8
Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.

Animals
9
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

10
Saint Frances Animal Center

Our mission is to provide a safe and nuturing environment for abandoned and mistreated dogs and cats until they can be placed in loving homes.

Animals
11
Christus St Michael Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of those religious congregations (the "sponsoring…

12
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA — $90,632 · OtherCENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANASouthwest Louisiana Veterans Home — $69,779 · OtherSouthwest Louisiana Veterans HomeLSU Health Sciences Foundation — $67,500 · OtherLSU Health Sciences FoundationCentenary College — $51,000 · OtherCentenary CollegeNW LA Veteran's Home — $38,030 · OtherNW LA Veteran's HomeSoutheast Louisiana Veterans Home — $20,000 · OtherLSU Health Foundation Shreveport — $18,000 · Other+9 more — $58,649 · Other+9 moreCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $127,500 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $20,000 · HealthSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AM…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRE…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $8,500 · Health+1 more — $750 · HealthLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $13,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA INC — $11,000 · AnimalsPARIS ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $5,300 · AnimalsSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 · Arts & CultureRENESTING PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$413,590Health$166,750Animals$29,800Arts & Culture$5,000Human Services$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $127,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA — $90,632 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChristus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARIS ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $5,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENESTING PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHEART OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Joyce S Mudd 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Joyce S Mudd Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joyce S Mudd Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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