How much did LOVE OUR SCHOOLS grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of LOVE OUR SCHOOLS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM$30,000
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME$15,000
LAFAYETTE KIWANIS FOUNDATION$15,000
ULL FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT$9,125
LAFAYETTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTH$7,552
W D & MARY BAKER SMITH CENTER$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$225k · 6 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$225k

$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

-34%

Still filing today

67%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

LP
LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM
3× · 2023–2025 · $76k
PA
PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA
2× · 2023–2024 · $60k
NI
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME
2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue -18%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA
one grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue -34%
DL
DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITEDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +123%
CK
CAPTURING KIDS' HEARTS
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -83%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The louisiana endowment for the humanities is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to all louisianans. the mission is to provide all louisianans with access to and an appreciation of their own rich,…

Arts & Culture

Future Athletes of Louisiana

Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…

Recreation & Sports

Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…

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Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame

To promote the sports history of louisiana and its many accomplished athletes through the establishment and maintenance of a central hall of fame and the preservation of sports history and memorabilia.

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University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

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Louisiana Foundation for Excellence in

To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.

Philanthropy

Lsu Research Foundation

Community Improvement

Lafayette Museum of Fine Art Inc

Arts & Culture

The Lafayette Public Library Foundation

Educational

Philanthropy

Arts Council of Central Louisiana

Promotion of the arts within the central Louisiana community parishes

Arts & Culture

Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture. aia louisiana empowers its members to improve communities through the architecture profession.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Univ of Louisiana At Lafayette and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Lafayette Unlimited. 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

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

3/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$143,378Philanthropy$77,382Arts & Culture$60,000Education$45,000Human Services$25,000

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.

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.

William C Schumacher Family FoundationLA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Kiwanis Club of Lafayette · The Louisiana Open Inc · Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical · Lafayette General Health System Inc · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · American Online Giving 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 organisation LOVE OUR SCHOOLS 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAFAYETTE KIWANIS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274724547 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAFAYETTE KIWANIS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Love Our Schools?

Find your warmest path to Love Our Schools through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LOVE OUR SCHOOLS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Love Our Schools?

More from the funding graph

LOVE OUR SCHOOLS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Love Our Schools?

More from the funding graph