· Private foundation
Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT | $5,000 |
| CITY OF BROUSSARD | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA | $4,000 |
| MY BROTHER ROCKS SPECTRUM | $3,000 |
| ST CECILIA SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BROUSSARD CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GIFTING GRACE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST | $2,500 |
| MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES | $2,500 |
| ST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| BROUSSARD MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF ACADIA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATE OF ACADIANA | $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 (FY17–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +12%
- MPMILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +91%
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA5× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART OF JESUS CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- COCATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELISone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LMLAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +51%
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.
The organization's mission is to preserve, restore and expand downtown lafayette, louisiana as a business and cultural center.
Lafayette Animal Aid was incorporated and filed for exempt status 501(c)(3) in 1976 with sole purpose of helping to manage and care for the animal population in the lafayette Parish Area of Louisiana.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
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 public education and conditions for educators
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
To provide an inspiring and motivatng educational environment that delivers real, measurable results and prepares our students to be the next generation of leaders.
The mission of the association shall be to promote communication and interaction among members and to provide education and training programs on issues of hunger and food banking.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Acadiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beaver Club of Lafayette Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 68 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 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds Broussard Chamber Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Central Park Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MINISTRY OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds BEAVER CLUB OF LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTING GRACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME FAMILY READING ↗
- Who funds PROUD LOUISIANA LLC ↗
- Who funds MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DESTINATION ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds KREWE OF ANGELS 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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Zuschlag Family Foundation · The Rucks Family Foundation · Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Stuller Family Foundation · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Billy & Clara Mosing Foundation · Fred & Babette Werner Family Foundation · The Mosing Family Foundation
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 Martial F Billeaud Sr 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.
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