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Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system.

$87k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MEducation$60kPhilanthropy$46kRecreation & Sports$27kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $58,324, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,170 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,846 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC$30,320
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA$10,000
LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER INC$9,004
UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC$9,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10k → 15%MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $581k → 17%ST MArtin Hospital: $50k → 18%ACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $299k → 25%UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND CLINCIS: $223k → 17%ST MARTIN HOSPITAL: $10k → 18%ACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $272k → 25%University Hospital and Clinics: $91k → 17%ST MARTIN HOSPITAL: $8k → 18%ACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $133k → 25%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS & CLINCS INC: $15k → 17%LOUISIANA SATE UNIVERSITY EUNICE FOUNDATION: $7k → 25%SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS & CLINCS INC: $6k → 17%LOURDES FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 17%MILES PERRET CENTER CANCER SERVICES: $10k → 17%MILES PERRET CENTER CANCER SERVICES: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $30k → 17%LAFAYETTE GENERAL HEATLH SYSTEM INC: $24k → 17%LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15k → 17%Louisiana Open INC: $13k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $9k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE: $7k → 17%JPJ MEMORIAL 1-MILE TURKEY TROT: $6k → 17%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 6 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+68%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $946k · revenue +38%
  • AG
    ACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $703k · revenue +26%
  • LG
    LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Acadiana Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -21%
  • LG
    LAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +208%
  • CO
    CITY OF LAFAYETTE AQUATICS
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
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.

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Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
2
Ochsner Clinic Foundation

We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.

Health
3
Ochsner Health System

We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate. ochsner will be a global medical and academic leader who will save and change lives. we will shape the future of healthcare through our integrated health system, fueled by the passion and…

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4
University of Louisville Physicians Inc

Provide professional medical services in a variety of medical specialties and disciplines in accordance with the corporation's charitable mission: strengthen and broaden the range of skills and patient populations available for physicians…

Health
5
Rush Health Systems Inc

Provision of health care services through affiliates see schedule o for community benefit statement

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6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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7
Louisiana State University School of Med in New Orleans Faculty Group Practice

The patient-centered healthcare team of the lsu healthcare network will provide the highest quality, comprehensive medical care with compassion and professionalism, while maintaining our commitment to academic excellence

Health
8
Lsu Health Sciences Center - Shreveport Faculty Group Practice

No board approved mission statement

Health
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Ochsner Lsu Health System of North Louisiana

No board approved mission statement

Health
11
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lafayette General Medical Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Louisiana Open Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $945,986 · HealthUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INCACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $703,143 · HealthACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INCLAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $94,326 · HealthST MARTIN HOSPITAL INC: $68,179 · Health+1 more: $23,608 · HealthMILES PERRET CENTER CANCER SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherCITY OF LAFAYETTE AQUATICS: $14,000 · OtherTHE LOUISIANA OPEN INC: $12,500 · OtherLourdes Foundation Inc: $12,000 · OtherSOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE: $7,000 · OtherJPJ TURKEY TROT MEMORIAL: $6,335 · OtherUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $33,829 · EducationLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AT EUNICE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUnited Way of Acadiana Inc: $39,648 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$1,835,242Other$78,835Education$45,829Philanthropy$39,648Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $945,986 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetACADIA GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $703,143 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $94,326 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST MARTIN HOSPITAL INC: $68,179 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Acadiana Inc: $39,648 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $33,829 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $23,608 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA OPEN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AT EUNICE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Our Lady of Lourdes R…Lafayette General Hea…Shell USA Company Fou…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of AcadianaLA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Inc · Lafayette General Health System Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Lafayette General Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lafayette General Foundation Inc. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 17 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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