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Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc

To reward and motivate louisiana marketing education coordinators by providing enhanced learning opportunities.

$491k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.5MEmployment$26kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $351,597, the rows itemized in this filing. The $491,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $139,603 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$11,365
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM$54,200
CONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD CONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICT$46,749
ST TAMMANY PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS$34,500
EAST FELICIANA PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EAST FELICIANA HIGH SCHOOL$23,156
EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOLS$21,744
ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOLS$21,264
BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL FOR TECHNOLOGY & INNOVAT$17,158
CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOLS$14,131
EVANGELINE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EVANGELINE PARISH SCHOOLS$13,685
EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM BATON ROUGE MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL$13,559
UNIVERSITY VIEW ACADEMY$11,365
LIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD WALKER HIGH SCHOOL$9,766
LASALLE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD LASALLE PARISH SCHOOLS$9,525
OUACHITA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM QUACHITA PARISH SCHOOLS$9,125
EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM GLEN OAKS HIGH SCHOOL$8,845
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL: $33k → 10%ST TAMMANY PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $35k → 11%ST CHARLES PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM HAHNVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $19k → 11%EAST FELICIANA PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EAST FELICIANA HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 16%POINTE COUPEE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD LIVONIA HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 17%GRANT PARISH SCHOOL BOARD GRANT HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 18%EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL: $21k → 19%TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD PONCHATOULA HIGH SCHOOL: $24k → 20%WEST FELICIANA HIGH SCHOOL WEST FELICIANA HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 20%CADDO PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOODLAWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $32k → 22%CONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD CONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $47k → 28%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL: $32k → 10%BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL FOR TECHNOLOGY & INNOVAT: $17k → 13%LAFOURCHE PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS SOUTH LAFOURCHE HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 17%VIDALIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT VIDALIA HIGH SCHOOL: $19k → 28%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL: $22k → 10%BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAUGHTON HIGH SCHOOL: $26k → 13%TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM: $54k → 20%WASHINGTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD FRANKLINTON HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 23%VIDALIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT VIDALIA HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 28%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL: $22k → 10%BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAUGHTON HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 13%TERREBONNE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD TERREBONNE HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 16%TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD AMITE HIGH MAGNET SCHOOL: $20k → 20%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL: $19k → 10%LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM CARENCRO HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 17%ZACHARY COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL: $21k → 19%TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD HAMMOND HIGH MAGNET SCHOOL: $24k → 20%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD EAST ASCENSION HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 10%CADDO PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS CE BYRD: $18k → 22%CADDO PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS CE BYRD: $16k → 22%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD ST AMANT HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 10%LIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD LIVE OAK HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 13%LIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD WALKER HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 13%LIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD WALKER HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 13%LIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD WALKER HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 13%EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM TARA HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 19%EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM TARA HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 19%EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOLS: $22k → 19%EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM BATON ROUGE MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 19%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOLS: $21k → 10%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DUTCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $44k → 10%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DUTCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $28k → 10%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DUTCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 10%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DUTCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $21k → 10%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DUTCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 10%ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DUTCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 10%EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM BELAIRE HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 34 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

$2.4M
$159k

Still filing today

0%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $461k
  • EB
    EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $286k
  • TP
    TANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM
    5× · 2019–2025 · $177k

Funded once

  • ZC
    ZACHARY COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
  • GP
    GRANT PARISH SCHOOL BOARD
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • JP
    JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $461,268 · OtherASCENSION PARISH SCHOOL BOARDEAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SD: $285,839 · OtherEAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SDTANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM: $177,278 · OtherTANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEMLIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $166,540 · OtherLIVINGSTON PARISH SCHOOL BOARDCADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $149,964 · OtherCADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARDCONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD CONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $149,457 · OtherCONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL BOARD CONCORDIA PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICTBOSSIER PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $103,479 · Other+45 more: $1,055,219 · Other+45 moreLAFAYETTE CHARTER FOUNDATION INC: $11,894 · EducationINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $8,850 · EducationDELHI CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,076 · Education
Other$2,549,044Education$25,820

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAFAYETTE CHARTER FOUNDATION INC: $11,894 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $8,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELHI CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,076 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 LAFAYETTE CHARTER FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Share Our StrengthSecond Harvest Food B…Project Lead the Way …National Institute fo…Project Lead the Way …New Orleans Jazz & He…The Rapides FoundationGenYOUTH IncorporatedBaton Rouge Area Foun…Round It Up America I…Greater Houston Commu…For Inspiration and R…
Share Our StrengthDC47× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Project Lead the Way Inc · National Institute for Excellence in Teaching · Project Lead the Way Inc · New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc · The Rapides Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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