· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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 +42% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +106%
- NLNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
- PCPROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- LTLOUISIANA TECH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $108k
- LSLOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE AND THE ARTSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TCTHE CAPSTONE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
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 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…
Adoption of amimals
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…
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…
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
To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.
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…
Feedingproviding meals to children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission and 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.
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 28 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 — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 77 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Louie & Tootsie Davis 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.
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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