· Public charity
Lha Foundation
The primary purpose of the LHA FOUNDATION is to administer hhs grants and other grants and contracts.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of LHA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $628,197 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $732,684 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,487 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $331k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LCMC HEALTH | $159,054 |
| OCEANS HEALTHCARE LLC | $51,708 |
| CHRISTUS HEALTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA | $39,375 |
| OPELOUSAS GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM | $38,900 |
| STEWARDGLENWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $33,464 |
| HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT NO 1 | $30,489 |
| SLIDELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $24,668 |
| LEONARD J CHABERT MEDICAL CENTER | $22,771 |
| AVOYELLES HOSPITAL | $18,983 |
| ST BERNARD PARISH HOSPITAL | $18,976 |
| ST CHARLES PARISH HOSPITAL | $17,078 |
| SABINE MEDICAL CENTER | $14,635 |
| HOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $13,757 |
| ACADIA-ST LANDRY HOSPITAL | $11,860 |
| OCHSNER AMERICAN LEGION HOSPITAL | $11,860 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 89% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Lha Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 20 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k 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
- LGLAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC2× · 2020–2022 · $152k · revenue +675%
- WMWILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $145k · revenue +33%
- CHChristus Health Southwestern Louisiana2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- LRLOUISIANA RURAL AMBULANCE ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2021 · $495k · revenue -95%
- AAACADIAN AMBULANCE SERIVCE INCone grant, 2021 · $381k
- NONEW ORLEANS EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $88k · revenue -62%
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.
Inspired by the vision of st. francis and in the tradition of the roman catholic church, we extend the healing ministry of jesus christ to god's people, especially those most in need. we call forth all who serve in this healthcare…
The patient-centered healthcare team of the lsu healthcare network will provide the highest quality, comprehensive medical care with compassion and professionalism, while maintaining our commitment to academic excellence
No board approved mission statement
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
To provide medical are and health programs by operating a 49 bed facility and 4 Rural Health Clinics (RHC) for Hospital Service District 2 of Beauregard Parish and 5 physician clinics; recruit and employ physicians in HPSA.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
To provide exceptional healthcare. see schedule o for additional information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Savoy Medical Managment Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 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.
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 122 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 LOUISIANA RURAL AMBULANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Ochsner Health System ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christus Health Southwestern Louisiana ↗
- Who funds LAFOURCHE PARISH HOSPITAL SERVICE DIST 1 DBA LADY OF THE SEA GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER LSU HEALTH SYSTEM OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Christus Health Northern Louisiana ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION D/B/A LAKE CHARLES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Christus Health Central Louisiana ↗
- Who funds NATCHITOCHES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY - PSO INC ↗
- Who funds LCMC HEALTH HOLDINGS INC ↗
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: Louisiana Rural Health Collective · Living Well Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Lha 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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