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Louisiana Bar Foundation

The LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION exists to preserve, honor, and improve our system of justice by funding, developing or otherwise promoting efforts which enhance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system and advance the reality of equal justice.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Crime & Legal$71MHuman Services$4.3MHealth$713kHousing & Shelter$114kCommunity Improvement$32kPublic Benefit$32kCivil Rights$29kEducation$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $565k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+9 grants · $13M
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATION$5,089,490
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES$3,901,563
LAGNIAPPE LAW LAB$842,500
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER$798,500
LOUISIANA APPLESEED$527,200
THE PRO BONO PROJECT$444,000
BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION$314,500
SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION$306,903
THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES$298,460
CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE$246,236
FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA$162,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA$160,000
PROJECT SAVE A PROGRAM OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS$157,786
LAFAYETTE BAR FOUNDATION$155,000
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION$144,250
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 (FY17–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%JEFF DAVIS COMMUNITIES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $50k → 19%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES: $397k → 24%CHEZ HOPE INC: $176k → 25%PROJECT CELEBRATION INC: $132k → 26%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES: $298k → 24%CHEZ HOPE INC: $128k → 25%PROJECT CELEBRATION INC: $126k → 26%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMI: $60k → 24%CHEZ HOPE: $88k → 25%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES: $55k → 24%CHEZ HOPE INC: $77k → 25%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES: $55k → 24%CHEZ HOPE: $76k → 25%THE EXTRA MILE: $131k → 17%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMI: $52k → 24%CHEZ HOPE: $76k → 25%THE EXTRA MILE: $75k → 17%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMI: $50k → 24%CHEZ HOPE INC: $60k → 25%THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES: $48k → 24%CHEZ HOPE INC: $60k → 25%CHEZ HOPE: $55k → 25%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $246k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $232k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE: $58k → 19%PROJECT SAVE A PROGRAM OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $158k → 23%PROJECT SAVE A PROGRAM OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $133k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $107k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - NEW ORLEANS: $92k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $75k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - NEW ORLEANS: $71k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - NEW ORLEANS: $66k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $65k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - NEW ORLEANS: $60k → 23%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $160k → 23%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $135k → 23%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $59k → 23%ADVOCACY CENTER: $49k → 23%LOUISIANA APPLESEED: $527k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $451k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $444k → 23%LOUISIANA APPLESEED: $292k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $238k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $134k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $132k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $125k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $124k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $124k → 23%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 60 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
15

Total granted

$75M
$609k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+22%

Still filing today

97%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $979k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AL
    ACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +53% · 49% of their budget
  • SL
    SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue +136% · 27% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PRO BONO PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +64% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2017 · $456k
  • SN
    SAFETY NET FOR ABUSED PERSONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -32%
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
Orleans County Child Advocacy Center Inc
Health
2
Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

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3
Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center

The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center is a New Orleans based non-profit law office established in 1993 as the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. The LCAC represents indigent individuals who are charged with capital crimes in Louisiana…

Crime & Legal
4
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance

The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…

Human Services
5
Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc

The Organization is dedicated to bringing about change in institutions, laws, politics, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow individuals to live free of violence.

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6
Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy

Immigration Legal Services and Advocacy (ISLA) provides direct representation to indigent detained immigrants throughout Louisiana on a pro bono basis and under a universal representation model. ISLA provides information to the public to…

Crime & Legal
7
Child Advocacy Services Inc

Child advocacy services gives voice, healing, and security to children in ten parishes in southeast louisiana through its casa program, children's advocacy program, and prevention education.

Civil Rights
8
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
9
Southern Center for Children & Families Inc

The Center for Children and Families, Inc. was organized for the advocacy of children in the court and foster care systems within the Fourth Judicial District of Louisiana, and to do any and all things germane, incidental and necessary to…

Civil Rights
10
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
11
Casa of West CenLA Inc

Provide children representation before the judicial system

Crime & Legal
12
Delta Childrens Advocacy Center

Delta Childrens Advocacy Centers mission is to respond to child abuse in the Mississippi Delta by serving and nurturing children and non-offending caregivers through a trauma-informed multidisciplinary approach.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Guardianship Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lower 9TH Ward Homeownership Association. 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

76 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. 76 of the 85 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
54/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $27,927,606 · Crime & LegalACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATIONSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP: $21,080,487 · Crime & LegalSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP+16 more: $6,322,763 · Crime & Legal+16 moreTHE PRO BONO PROJECT: $1,876,621 · Human ServicesTHE PRO BONO PR…THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,053,845 · Human ServicesTHE WELLSPRING …CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $1,029,388 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $819,140 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA APPLE…CHEZ HOPE INC: $795,626 · Human ServicesCHEZ HOPE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC: $774,337 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $619,538 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGH…METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $575,336 · Human ServicesMETRO CENTERS F…Faith House Inc: $558,937 · Human ServicesFaith House IncPROJECT CELEBRATION INC: $533,614 · Human ServicesDART (DOMESTIC ABUSE RESISTANCE TEAM): $375,291 · Human Services+8 more: $1,277,438 · Human Services+8 moreSHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION: $1,254,945 · OtherSHREVEPORT…SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $798,500 · OtherSOUTHERN U…REDEMPTION MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $514,500 · OtherREDEMPTION…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $487,597 · OtherCATHOLIC C…LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $456,035 · OtherLEGAL SERV…CENTRAL LOUISIANA PRO BONO PROJECT: $454,640 · OtherCENTRAL LO…LOUISIANA CENTER FOR LAW AND CIVIC EDUCATION INC: $364,500 · OtherLOUISIANA CIVIL JUSTICE CENTER: $361,250 · OtherBEAUREGARD COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $353,847 · OtherTRAINING EDUCATION AND MEDIATION FOR STUDENTS: $325,850 · OtherNOAIDS TASK FORCE: $295,540 · OtherYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY: $266,567 · OtherFAMILY VIOLENCE PROGRAM OF ST BERNARD: $263,487 · Other+22 more: $963,419 · Other+22 moreLAGNIAPPE LAW LAB: $1,427,213 · Civil Rights+4 more: $123,967 · Civil RightsLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $1,183,528 · Education+1 more: $11,520 · EducationThe Haven Inc: $556,811 · HealthFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc: $89,500 · HealthGINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $10,730 · HealthFIRST GRACE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $244,750 · Housing & ShelterLOWER 9TH WARD HOMEOWNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $27,000 · Housing & Shelter
Crime & Legal$55,330,856Human Services$10,289,111Other$7,160,677Civil Rights$1,551,180Education$1,195,048Health$692,041Housing & Shelter$271,750

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 budgetACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $27,927,606 over 9y, 49% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP: $21,080,487 over 9y, 27% of budgetTHE PRO BONO PROJECT: $1,876,621 over 9y, 41% of budgetLAGNIAPPE LAW LAB: $1,427,213 over 2y, 71% of budgetBATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION: $1,417,405 over 9y, 80% of budgetSHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION: $1,254,945 over 9y, 65% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $1,183,528 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,053,845 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $1,029,388 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetLAFAYETTE PARISH BAR FOUNDATION: $958,613 over 9y, 87% of budgetLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $819,140 over 2y, 51% of budgetCHEZ HOPE INC: $795,626 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC: $774,337 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: $685,966 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $619,538 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $575,336 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION: $560,713 over 9y, 92% of budgetFaith House Inc: $558,937 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetThe Haven Inc: $556,811 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetPROJECT CELEBRATION INC: $533,614 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $496,352 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $487,597 over 9y, 11% of budgetFRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES: $463,708 over 9y, 37% of budgetCENTRAL LOUISIANA PRO BONO PROJECT: $454,640 over 9y, 95% of budgetJUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER OF LOUISIANA: $441,271 over 6y, 16% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC: $433,239 over 5y, 13% of budgetDART (DOMESTIC ABUSE RESISTANCE TEAM): $375,291 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR LAW AND CIVIC EDUCATION INC: $364,500 over 9y, 38% of budgetSOUTHEAST SPOUSE ABUSE PROGRAM: $360,332 over 9y, 13% of budgetBEAUREGARD COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $353,847 over 9y, 67% of budgetTRAINING EDUCATION AND MEDIATION FOR STUDENTS: $325,850 over 9y, 69% of budgetNOAIDS TASK FORCE: $295,540 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION INC: $280,250 over 2y, 85% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY: $266,567 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetOASIS - A SAFE HAVEN FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $266,158 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PROGRAM OF ST BERNARD: $263,487 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetFIRST GRACE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $244,750 over 9y, 18% of budgetJEFF DAVIS COMMUNITIES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $242,094 over 9y, 14% of budgetTHE EXTRA MILE REGION IV INC: $234,090 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $225,750 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetSafe Harbor Inc: $220,383 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA LAW CENTERINC: $184,234 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc: $89,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ELLA PROJECT: $73,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetLOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: $61,506 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPINE HILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $56,850 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center - Hope House: $46,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNAMI SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $38,328 over 2y, 0.8% 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 ACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LAGNIAPPE LAW LAB ↗
  • Who funds BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE PARISH BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEZ HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Faith House Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Haven Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CELEBRATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL LOUISIANA PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds DART (DOMESTIC ABUSE RESISTANCE TEAM) ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR LAW AND CIVIC EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST SPOUSE ABUSE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds BEAUREGARD COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAINING EDUCATION AND MEDIATION FOR STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds NOAIDS TASK FORCE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCES CABRINI IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY ↗
  • Who funds OASIS - A SAFE HAVEN FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Louisiana Coalition A…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…United Way of Southea…The Huey & Angelina W…Foundation for Louisi…Baptist Community Min…Louisiana Alliance of…Baton Rouge Area Foun…Carolyn W & Charles T…Shell USA Company Fou…Christus Health
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA42.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Baptist Community Ministries · Louisiana Alliance of Childrens Advocacy Centers · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christus Health

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 Louisiana Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louisiana Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Louisiana Bar Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Louisiana Bar 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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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