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Louisiana Bucket Brigade at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$202kHousing & Shelter$172kEnvironment$158kEducation$15kReligion$15kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $34,226 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,226 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT RECOVERY PROJECT$10,000
RESTORE TRUST$5,000
HEALTHY GULF$5,000
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HABITAT RECOVERY PROJECT: $10k → 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 6 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$320k
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+62%

Still filing today

33%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TD
    THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $172k
  • JH
    JESUS HOUSE NEW ORLEANS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $41k
  • GD
    GLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $38k

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +345%
  • IL
    INCLUSIVE LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2024 · $39k
  • 3N
    350 NEW ORLEANS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Louisiana Bucket Brigade

To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

Environment
2
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
3
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana

The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.

Environment
4
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
—
5
Louisiana Swamp Watch Inc

Educate public on special interest in Louisiana

Public Benefit
6
Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United

Fishing community advocacy

Community Improvement
7
Clean Reefs
Environment
8
Environment Now
—
9
Acadia Center

Acadia Center advances bold, effective, and equitable clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.

Environment
10
First People's Conservation Council

The first peoples conservation council (fpcc) of louisiana is an association formed to provide a forum for native american tribes in coastal louisiana to identify and solve natural resource issues on their tribal lands.

Environment
11
Bayou Research Institute
Crime & Legal
12
Friends of South Louisiana Wetlands

The mission of south la wetlands discovery center is to revolutionize the way we think, teach, and learn about louisianas disappearing coast. we are currently raising funds to further our mission.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tribal Images Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Concerned Citizens of St John. 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

9 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. 9 of the 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT: $172,000 · OtherTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECTJESUS HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $40,500 · OtherJESUS HOUSE NEW ORLEANSINCLUSIVE LOUISIANA: $38,640 · OtherINCLUSIVE LOUISIANAGLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH: $37,500 · OtherGLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH350 NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 · Other350 NEW ORLEANS INCRESIDENTS FOR AIR NEUTRALIZATION: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $45,000 · Other+6 moreRESTORE TRUST: $35,000 · EnvironmentRESTORE TRUSTRURAL ROOTS LOUISIANA: $18,000 · EnvironmentRURAL ROOTS LOUISI…AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $15,000 · EnvironmentAIR ALLIANCE HOUST…School House 4 Reimagining Education Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentSchool House 4 Rei…HEALTHY GULF: $5,000 · EnvironmentHEALTHY GULFThe Concerned Citizens of St John: $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Concerned Citi…INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $60,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE F…LOWLANDER CENTER: $20,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER NEW ORLEANS INTERFAITH CLIMATE COALITION: $20,000 · ReligionTRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$373,640Environment$93,000Civil Rights$60,000Community Improvement$20,000Religion$20,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRESTORE TRUST: $35,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS INTERFAITH CLIMATE COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSchool House 4 Reimagining Education Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 49% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds LOWLANDER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS INTERFAITH CLIMATE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds RURAL ROOTS LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds School House 4 Reimagining Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Foundation for Louisi…Resources Legacy FundHealthy GulfRockefeller Family Fu…Windward FundSilicon Valley Commun…Tides Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for Louisiana · Resources Legacy Fund · Healthy Gulf · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Windward Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides 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 Louisiana Bucket Brigade funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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 Bucket Brigade?

    Find your warmest path to Louisiana Bucket Brigade 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 22 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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