· Public charity
Keep Louisiana Beautiful Inc
To promote personal, corporate, and community responsibility for a clean and beautiful louisiana.
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.
The 85 grants below total $739,961 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,039,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $299,472 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k69 grants · $480k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL | $24,294 |
| TOWN OF ARCADIA | $22,732 |
| KEEP ALGIERS BEAUTIFUL | $20,930 |
| TOWN OF MADISONVILLE | $17,359 |
| TERREBONNE PARISH CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT | $16,201 |
| THE WALLS PROJECT | $16,117 |
| ST TAMMANY PARISH GOVERNMENT | $16,105 |
| CITY OF WINNFIELD | $16,000 |
| ST MARY PARISH LIBRARY | $15,984 |
| CLEAN PELICAN INC | $15,400 |
| KEEP BOSSIER BEAUTIFUL | $14,960 |
| TOWN OF OBERLIN | $14,094 |
| TOWN OF LAKE ARTHUR | $13,659 |
| SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $13,132 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE | $11,709 |
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, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 57% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 58 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
- SGSHREVEPORT GREEN4× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +88%
- FOFRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS2× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +32%
- AFADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $13k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- WPWEBSTER PARISH POLICE JURYone grant, 2023 · $18k
- COCITY OF PINEVILLEone grant, 2023 · $13k
- COCITY OF DONALDSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
Infrastructure Solutions
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
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The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
To promote our local area to new industry and to recruit new industry to our local area
This is a community base organization that promotes community involvement in all types of activities for the community including health fairs, heart walks and other functions to promote the well being of the neighbors.
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.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Glass Act Recycling. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 171 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 SHREVEPORT GREEN ↗
- Who funds SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF ALGIERS ↗
- Who funds Keep Covington Beautiful Inc ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE WALLS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KEEP BOSSIER BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS ↗
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: Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Foundation for Louisiana · Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Keep America Beautiful Inc · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · The Rapides Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Patrick F Taylor 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 Keep Louisiana Beautiful 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.