· Private foundation
First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $27,000 |
| STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT | $20,000 |
| RED RIVER REVEL INC | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| BARKSDALE FORWARDINC | $15,000 |
| CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUS | $10,000 |
| RED RIVER STEM INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF | $5,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -53% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TSTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +46%
- RRRED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +4%
- CCCAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MLMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +11%
- SFSTEP FORWARDone grant, 2019 · $7k
- OHOakwood Home for Women Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -53%
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 sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
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.
The Robinson Film Center is a 501c3 Not for Profit arts organization based in Shreveport, LA. Our mission is to provide a venue for independent, international, and classic cinema while serving as a resource for film production and media…
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
Cultural artistic performances to promote and preserve the art of classical ballet in the community
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
Shreveport chamber of commerce provides various projects thoughout the year for chamber members.
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…
Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes
To provide cultural enhancement in northeast louisiana through concerts, art, and similar projects.
Assistance in economic development.
The bossier arts council is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and providing cultural events and programming in order to enhance the quality of life and to develope a cultural identity for bossier parish.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shreveport Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oakwood Home for Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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.
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 THE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER STEM INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT OPERA ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Oakwood Home for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · J B Atkins Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · Noel Foundation Inc · Shreveport Regional Arts Council · Jack Webster Grigsby Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc 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.