How much does Mayor's Healthy City Initiative give?

Mayor's Healthy City Initiative reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,140, out of $24,023 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Mayor's Healthy City Initiative fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).

Who are Mayor's Healthy City Initiative's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Walls Project ($649k), Top Box Foods ($499k), Agile Planning ($485k).

Does Mayor's Healthy City Initiative fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mayor's Healthy City Initiative?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Area United Way, The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation.

Where is Mayor's Healthy City Initiative based?

Mayor's Healthy City Initiative is based in LA.

Mayor's Healthy City Initiative

Mayor's Healthy City Initiative at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Mayor's Healthy City Initiative

None

$24k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$3.4M

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 1 grants below total $5,140, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,023 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,883 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.

$5,140

Median grant

States reached

$68k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JOHN STAUB FOUNDATION	$5,140

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.8M · 12 repeat orgs$595k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$590k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+8%

Still filing today

58%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TW
THE WALLS PROJECT
6× · 2018–2023 · $649k · revenue +931%
TB
TOP BOX FOODS
6× · 2018–2023 · $499k · revenue +395%
AH
American Heart Association Inc
3× · 2020–2022 · $225k · revenue +53%

Funded once

OL
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Incgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $164k · revenue +28%
SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +23%
BR
BATON ROUGE NORTH EDD
one grant, 2021 · $60k

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

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.

Urban League of Louisiana

To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.

Human Services

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

Environment

Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health

Baton Rouge Primary Care Collaborative Inc

To provide high quality comprehensive health care services for the under-served population of east baton rouge parish and the surrounding areas regardless of ability to pay.

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Lsu Research Foundation

Community Improvement

Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

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Little Chefs Big Change

The mission of Little Chefs, Big Change (LCBC) is to get kids excited about food that's good for both people and the planet. We do this by teaching affordable and fun plant-focused cooking and increasing access to healthy foods in schools…

Food & Nutrition

Capital Area Agency On Aging Inc

The agency's mission is to advocate and provide services to enhance the quality of life for older adults.

Human Services

Together 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…

Public Benefit

Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

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.

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Lowlander Center

The lowlander center supports lowland communities and places, both inland and coastal, facing climate change and coastal erosion. our strategic focus on adaptation and sustainability is driven by decade-long partnerships with historied and…

Community Improvement

New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee

a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance; the most unlike its peers is John & Carol Staub Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 31 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/15

Grantees still filing

8/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,463,111Arts & Culture$648,600Food & Nutrition$498,706Health$434,485Youth Development$133,000Human Services$116,375Community Improvement$110,000

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.

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.

Capital Area United WayLA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Area United Way · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mayor's Healthy City Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mayor's Healthy City Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home