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Methodist Health System Foundation Inc

To focus on the support, development, and management of health-related programs and services for the new orleans metro area.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$3.9MEducation$1.5MYouth Development$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHousing & Shelter$723kCrime & Legal$535kRecreation & Sports$425kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $1,150,246 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,216,105 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,859 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $983k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE 18TH WARD$125,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA$100,000
HOTEL HOPE$95,000
VIA LINK INC$91,041
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$75,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF NEW ORLEANS$70,000
EDEN CENTERS$65,000
LUKE'S HOUSE$60,000
START CORPORATION$51,705
BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION$50,000
OZANAM INN$50,000
GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC$50,000
SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS$50,000
CRESCENTCARE$42,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GIVING HOPE INC: $54k → 23%GIVING HOPE INC: $38k → 23%GIVING HOPE INC: $36k → 23%GIVING HOPE INC: $31k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $59k → 23%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $50k → 23%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $50k → 23%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $50k → 23%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $5k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%FRIENDS OF THE FISHER HOUSE OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA: $30k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $175k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $155k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $150k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $150k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $82k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $82k → 23%TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $75k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $40k → 23%CHILDRENS BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS: $30k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 35 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
17

Total granted

$9.6M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+11%

Still filing today

97%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% 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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $842k · revenue +86%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $834k · revenue +6%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
    5× · 2018–2025 · $631k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $124k · revenue +107%
  • LC
    LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $117k · revenue +331%
  • TB
    THE BLOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $116k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
3
Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

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

Health
4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.

Community Improvement
6
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.

Philanthropy
7
Lsu Health Sciences Center - Shreveport Faculty Group Practice

No board approved mission statement

Health
8
Ochsner Lsu Health System of North Louisiana

No board approved mission statement

Health
9
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc

Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…

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10
Louisiana State University School of Med in New Orleans Faculty Group Practice

The patient-centered healthcare team of the lsu healthcare network will provide the highest quality, comprehensive medical care with compassion and professionalism, while maintaining our commitment to academic excellence

Health
11
Louisiana Hospital Association

To support members through advocacy, education, and services

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12
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Blood Center Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
18%
559/3,071

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 55 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/53
Grantees still filing
33/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $841,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INCST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $427,366 · HealthST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH…LUKE'S HOUSE- A CLINIC FOR HEALING AND HOPE — $300,300 · HealthLUKE'S HOUSE- A CLINIC FOR…OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $244,250 · HealthOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATIONCRESCENTCARE HOLDINGS INC — $193,755 · HealthCRESCENTCARE HOLDINGS INCMARILLAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $165,612 · HealthMARILLAC COMMUNITY HEALTH …THE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · HealthTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATIO…LOUISIANA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $116,652 · HealthTHE BLOOD CENTER — $115,709 · Health+1 more — $45,000 · HealthCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $834,430 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NE…Giving Hope Inc — $158,770 · Human ServicesGiving Hope IncBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $155,000 · Human ServicesBAYOU DISTRICT FO…START Corporation — $141,536 · Human ServicesSTART CorporationEDEN CENTERS — $130,000 · Human ServicesEDEN CENTERSNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS FAMIL…TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $75,000 · Human ServicesCLOVER NOLA INC — $58,610 · Human Services+2 more — $60,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF LOUISIANA — $626,864 · EducationHEALTH AND EDUC…LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $290,949 · EducationLIBERTY'S KITCH…DILLARD UNIVERSITY — $130,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERS…NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC — $124,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR…GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $100,293 · EducationGOOD SHEPHERD N…University of New Orleans Foundation — $86,000 · EducationUniversity of N…SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $73,600 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $60,000 · Education+1 more — $50,000 · EducationVIA LINK INC — $380,849 · OtherVIA LINK INCNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC — $300,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS MISSION INCUNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS — $210,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSSASCENSION DEPAUL SERVICES — $133,095 · OtherVOA DEVELOPMENT 2 INC — $120,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $100,519 · OtherOZANAM INN — $350,000 · OtherOZANAM INNHOTEL HOPE — $142,500 · Other18TH WARD — $425,000 · Other18TH WARDBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE — $240,000 · OtherBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIE…JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NEW ORLEANS INC — $140,898 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA — $100,000 · Other+7 more — $135,580 · OtherSON OF A SAINT — $494,723 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC — $390,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITI…LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $331,329 · Crime & LegalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $327,600 · Crime & LegalNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC — $214,000 · Crime & LegalSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $630,760 · Food & NutritionLOVE IN ACTION OUTREACH INC — $75,040 · Food & Nutrition
Health$2,600,144Human Services$1,713,346Education$1,541,706Other$2,778,941Youth Development$884,723Crime & Legal$872,929Food & Nutrition$705,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $841,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $834,430 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $630,760 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF LOUISIANA — $626,864 over 6y, 46% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $494,723 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $427,366 over 3y, 0.7% of budget18TH WARD — $425,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC — $390,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetVIA LINK INC — $380,849 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetOZANAM INN — $350,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $331,329 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $327,600 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetLUKE'S HOUSE- A CLINIC FOR HEALING AND HOPE — $300,300 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $290,949 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $244,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE — $240,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC — $214,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS — $210,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCRESCENTCARE HOLDINGS INC — $193,755 over 3y, 36% of budgetMARILLAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $165,612 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGiving Hope Inc — $158,770 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $155,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHOTEL HOPE — $142,500 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetSTART Corporation — $141,536 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF NEW ORLEANS INC — $140,898 over 2y, 11% of budgetASCENSION DEPAUL SERVICES — $133,095 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEDEN CENTERS — $130,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY — $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC — $124,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVOA DEVELOPMENT 2 INC — $120,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetTHE BLOOD CENTER — $115,709 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $100,293 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation — $86,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE IN ACTION OUTREACH INC — $75,040 over 3y, 46% of budgetTRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $73,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOVER NOLA INC — $58,610 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FISHER HOUSE OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA — $30,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baptist Community Min…The Greater New Orlea…United Way of Southea…Goldring Family Found…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Shell USA Company Fou…New Orleans Community…The Almar Foundationd…Patrick F Taylor Foun…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…The Usdin-Weil Founda…
Baptist Community MinistriesLA69.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Goldring Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Usdin-Weil 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 Methodist Health System Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Methodist Health System Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Methodist Health System Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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