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Louie & Tootsie Davis Foundation at a glance

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Louie & Tootsie Davis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$355k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$433kEducation$273kHealth$228kInternational$131kReligion$117kFood & Nutrition$92kAnimals$74kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $283k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOMESTIC ABUSE RESISTANCE TEAM$30,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$30,000
PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY$30,000
CADA$22,000
LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION$21,000
SALVATION ARMY-SHREVEPORTBOSSIER$20,000
FOODBANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA$15,000
LOUISIANA METODIST CHILDRENS HOME$12,500
LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME$12,500
GINGERBREAD HOUSE CHILD ADVOCATE$10,000
CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000
PINNACLE SEARCH AND RESCUE$10,000
GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION$10,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$10,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES DBA HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $15k → 11%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $1k → 24%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $15k → 11%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $1k → 24%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $1k → 24%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $1k → 24%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $1k → 24%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
IA
CA
KY
AR
NC
DC
LA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 48 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
23

Total granted

$1.2M
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-15%

Still filing today

46%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +106%
  • NL
    NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
  • PC
    PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • LT
    LOUISIANA TECH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $108k
  • LS
    LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE AND THE ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TC
    THE CAPSTONE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

1
Heart of Louisiana Humane Society
Animals
2
Take Paws Rescue

The mission of take paws rescue is to meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in need of rescue in louisiana. take paws rescue enacts this mission by pulling pets from rural and high kill shelters and preparing them…

Animals
3
Rescue Rehome Repeat of South Louisiana

Adoption of amimals

Animals
4
Animal Rescue New Orleans Inc

Animal rescue new orleans (arno) is a volunteer organization created and dedicated to the rescue and aid of abandoned and homeless animals in the aftermath of hurricane katrina, including responding to immediate medical needs, including…

Animals
5
Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana in the Roman Catholic Diocese

The mission of catholic charities of southwest louisiana is to be christ's merciful love to those who suffer.our mission is to be carried out by catholic people and others in fraternal goodwill pooling their resources to reach out and…

Human Services
6
Equine Advocacy of Louisiana
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7
Cajun Tails Rescue

Cajun Tails Rescue is a dog rescue organization We save dogs and puppies from kill shelters and others in need and get them vetted and adopted out Our goal is to reduce the stray and overpopulation rates and find

Animals
8
Live Free Animal Rescue

To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.

Animals
9
Zeus' Rescues Inc

Animal welfare: it is the mission, duty, and purpose of zeus' rescues to eradicate pet homelessness, cruelty, and euthanasia within the new orleans metro area. the organization is further committed to community building and pet education…

—
10
Belly Buddies Inc

Feedingproviding meals to children

Food & Nutrition
11
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
12
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Living 4 Them Outdoors. 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 77 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISIANA TECH FOUNDATION: $108,000 · OtherLOUISIANA TECH FOUNDATIONSALVATION ARMY-SHREVEPORTBOSSIER: $97,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY-SHREVEPORTBOSSIERCADA: $88,000 · OtherCADALOUISIANA METODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $67,500 · OtherLOUISIANA METODIST CHILDRENS HOMELOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $59,500 · OtherLOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIESShreveport Bossier Rescue Mission: $39,500 · OtherGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Other+54 more: $492,600 · Other+54 morePROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $80,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $40,000 · Human ServicesBackside Benevolence Fund Inc: $14,000 · Human ServicesPILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,500 · ReligionNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $80,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $63,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,000 · HealthPET SAVERS INC: $19,500 · AnimalsROBINSONS RESCUE INC: $15,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA INC: $10,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL THOROUGHBRED WELFARE ORGANIZATION INC: $7,000 · Animals
Other$987,100Education$120,000Human Services$111,500Religion$100,500Food & Nutrition$90,000Health$74,000Animals$52,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $63,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShreveport Bossier Rescue Mission: $39,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $20,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPET SAVERS INC: $19,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROBINSONS RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBackside Benevolence Fund Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetMEXICAN INDIAN TRAINING CENTER INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHREVEPORT VOLUNTEER NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDREN AND ARTHRITIS: $8,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL THOROUGHBRED WELFARE ORGANIZATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetPILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBayou Community Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW STEP OUTREACH: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds PET SAVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds ROBINSONS RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Backside Benevolence Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEXICAN INDIAN TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗

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 …Willis-Knighton Medic…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Shell USA Company Fou…H E Storer Charitable…Wheless FoundationThe Crow FoundationGrayson Foundation IncCarolyn W & Charles T…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Leonard & Betty Phill…The Powers Foundation…
Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · Wheless Foundation · The Crow Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc

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 Louie & Tootsie Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louie & Tootsie Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Louie & Tootsie Davis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Louie & Tootsie Davis 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 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-PF 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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