· Public charity
Love Our Schools
Engaging the community to improve lives through leadership and education
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLafayette Parish School System3× · 2023–2025 · $76k
- PAPERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA INC PASA2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue -1%
- UWUnited Way of Acadiana Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue -21%
Funded once
- CKCAPTURING KIDS HEARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- DLDowntown Lafayette Unlimitedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
- NHNORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
Educational
Fostering art and culture in acadiana - the aca provides education and outreach activities to all ages, grant funds and assistance to nonprofits, and visual art exhibits and performances in a state-of-the-art facility.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…
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…
To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.
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…
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA INC PASA ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Acadiana ↗
- Who funds United Way of Acadiana Inc ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME SELECTION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTURING KIDS HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Lafayette Unlimited ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Love Our Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Love Our Schools. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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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.
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