Louisiana · Public charity
Love Our Schools
Engaging the community to improve lives through leadership and education
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $93k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Love Our Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $93k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $110k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Parish School System | $76,421 | 3 | n/a |
| Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Inc Pasa | $60,000 | 2 | 11% |
| United Way of Acadiana Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kiwanis Club of Lafayette Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 33% |
| National Inventors Hall of Fame Selection Board Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Lafayette High Schwrestling | $13,470 | 2 | n/a |
| Capturing Kids Hearts Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Downtown Lafayette Unlimited | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette | $9,125 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Parish School System | $76,421 | 3 | n/a |
| Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Inc Pasa | $60,000 | 2 | 11% |
| United Way of Acadiana Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kiwanis Club of Lafayette Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 33% |
| National Inventors Hall of Fame Selection Board Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Lafayette High Schwrestling | $13,470 | 2 | n/a |
| Capturing Kids Hearts Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Downtown Lafayette Unlimited | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette | $9,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Lafayette Economic Development Foundation Inc | $7,552 | 1 | n/a |
| Northside High School | $5,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Milton Elementary | $5,205 | 1 | n/a |
| Carencro High School | $5,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Acadiana High School | $5,025 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Lafayette · The Louisiana Open Inc · Community Foundation of Acadiana · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Love Our Schools
- How much does Love Our Schools give?
- Love Our Schools reported 7 itemized grants totaling $92,677, out of $116,119 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Love Our Schools fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Philanthropy (22%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Love Our Schools's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Lafayette Parish School System ($76k), Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Inc Pasa ($60k), United Way of Acadiana Inc ($25k).
- Does Love Our Schools fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Love Our Schools?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William C Schumacher Family Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Lafayette, The Louisiana Open Inc.
- Where is Love Our Schools based?
- Love Our Schools is based in LA.
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