· Private foundation
Marcel J Damiens Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LADY OF THE LAKE TASTE OF TAMMANY | $10,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP HANNAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| LCGICARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BASKET OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL OF NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES | $2,500 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| NORTHSHORE FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- TOTRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +226%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +28%
- LILCG ICARE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- KOKREWE OF RED BEANSone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -43%
- BWBROTHERS WATCHING BROTHERSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- DADALLAS ACADEMY SPONSORSHIPone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
The primary purpose of christus foundation shreveport-bossier is to promote philanthropy and charitable giving to provide resources to enhance the ability of christus health northern louisiana in its mission of extending the healing…
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
The mission of st. frances cabrini hospital foundation of alexandria is to promote philanthropy and charitable giving in order to provide resources to enhance the ability of christus health central louisiana to fulfill its mission of…
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To fight cancer through research, education, and service to patience and their families.
Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
To support the activities of the new orleans baptist theological seminary as a church school for the southern baptist convention primarily through endowments and gifts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Burkeville Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 67 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 ST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WHAT YOU GIVE WILL GROW ↗
- Who funds LCG ICARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BASKET OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds KREWE OF RED BEANS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SOSO STRONG PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION 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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Azby Fund · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 organization Marcel J Damiens Family 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.