· Public charity
Mystic Krewe for the Preservation of Lagniappe in Louisiana
To undertake, promote, develop, support and operate charitable, cultural and educationalactivities to unite all segments of the Baton Rouge community in promotion of preservingand enhancing Baton Rouge and Louisiana traditions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPANISH TOWN LADIES AUX | $6,325 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE AT CYPRESS MOUNDS | $6,000 |
| MCMAIN'S CHILDREN'S DEVELOP CTR | $5,000 |
| ROBERT A BOGAN FIRE MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| FRONT YARD BIKES | $3,000 |
| FELICIANA LODGE 31 DYSLEXIA PROG | $3,000 |
| ST MARY'S RES TRAINING PROG | $3,000 |
| CIGARS FOR WARRIORS | $3,000 |
| BRBS ARTIST'S FUND | $2,000 |
| FOREKIDS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +54% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BRBATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +27%
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +77%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA INC6× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +47% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- AAAINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $9k
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE HOPE ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -102%
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.
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
To improve the quality of life of children and adults with development disabilites and their families through advocacy services and support
Hospitality industry trade association
We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Front Yard Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 51 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 BATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT YARD BIKES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS COME TRUE OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ST LILLIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT A BOGAN BR FIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CIGARS FOR WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS LOUISIANA EAST INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds KELLI LEIGH RICHMOND OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY ↗
- Who funds 1031 CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge 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: The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso 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 Mystic Krewe for the Preservation of Lagniappe in Louisiana 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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