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Leonard & Betty Phillips 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL | $16,000 |
| NORTH LOUISIANA JEWISH FEDERATION | $16,000 |
| THE LEONARD & BETTY PHILLIPS DEAF ACTION CENTER | $9,000 |
| SHREVEPORT COMMON | $5,000 |
| B'NAI ZION FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH MISSISSIPPI | $3,250 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $2,500 |
| GINGERBREAD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| GRAWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $1,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SRSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +9%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +22%
- SSSOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FLFRED L PHILLIPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -11%
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -61%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To provide education to the people of southwest louisiana about hiv/aids, hiv prevention, and to offer medical and social services to people living with hiv.
To provide quality, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally appropriate primary and preventive healthcare services to residents in medically underserved North Louisiana.
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…
The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To enhance the quality of life for persons with sickle cell disease, their families and the community through education, networking, guidance and referral services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 North Louisiana Jewish Federation ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED ↗
- Who funds FRED L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Shreveport Common Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RESULTS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Northwest Louisiana ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER ↗
- Who funds PACE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOHN WAYNE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Counseling 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 · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · The Crow Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Wheless Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · The Scott Foundation · American Electric Power 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 Leonard & Betty Phillips 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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