· Private foundation
Melancon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN LEGION DELVIN ADAMS POST 315 | $5,000 |
| LOUISIANA TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| GRAND ISLE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| BLESS YOUR HEART | $500 |
| FLETCHER TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -52% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFOURCHON OILMAN'S ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2018–2023 · $31k · revenue +49%
- HLHUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +90%
- LELAFOURCHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- LPLAFOURCHE PARISH ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2024 · $25k
- FOFriends of Bayou Lafourche Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -82%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTEone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
Bayou Community Foundations strengthens Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish and Grand Isle, LA through philanthropic leadership to create a vibrant and diverse community where all can thrive.
To restore grand isle to the beautiful tourist area it once was
public charity
Promote recreation, tourism and industry in the gueydan, vermilion parish, louisiana area
Promote ideas for the betterment of louisiana that cut across political, social and ideological boundaries
To protect and promote the development and preservation of the fishing guide industry in LA and industries that support the fishing guide industry.
The celebration of African American History in the Louisiana Parishes of Terrebonne, Lafourche and St. Mary
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Land conservation
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 35 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 FOURCHON OILMAN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds LAFOURCHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bayou Lafourche Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GRAND ISLE TARPON RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds LA 1 COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CUT OFF YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAYOU CIVIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BAYOU REGION CRIME STOPPERS 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.
Open a dossier: Danos Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melancon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melancon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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