· Private foundation
Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Shreveport Symphony | $5,000 |
| Red River Radio | $3,000 |
| LSU-Alexandria Foundation | $3,000 |
| The Catholic Foundation of North Central LA | $2,000 |
| Louisiana State Exhibit Museum | $1,050 |
| Rotary Club of Shreveport | $1,000 |
| Holy Angels | $1,000 |
| Food Bank of NW Louisiana | $833 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| Northwestern State University | $500 |
| Geaux 4 Kids Inc | $500 |
| The Links Foundation | $500 |
| Booker T Washington High School | $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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +17% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RRROBINSONS RESCUE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +17%
- NLNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +32%
- SRSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- IIICE Institute2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue -16%- D4Dress 4 Success3× · 2022–2024 · $1k
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.
To house and feed abandon animals and to find people wanting to adoptthese animals. Prevent abuse of animals and take legal action if necessary. A no kill shelter
Fostering and vetting animals for adoption.
Cajun Tails Rescue is a dog rescue organization We save dogs and puppies from kill shelters and others in need and get them vetted and adopted out Our goal is to reduce the stray and overpopulation rates and find
Shreveport Common Inc mission is to facilitate public/private partnerships to implement the Shreveport Common Vision Plan for an Arts-Inspired revitalization of Shreveport Common to an UNcommon Creative Cultural Community.
Shreveport green is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the city's environment and enhancing its economy through public education and community beautification, litter abatement, and recycling projects
Our purpose is to rescue cats at risk of euthanasia from animal controls and homeless cats off the streets. We provide them with safe shelter and medical care and adopt them into loving homes. We also spay and neuter cats to decrease the…
The mission of shreveport opera is to produce professional opera and musical productions of the highest artistic quality and to provide educational programming and outreach to children, youth and adults in the ark-la-tex region.
Rescue of schnauzer dogs
START's missison is to rescue, foster, spay/neuter and find loving homes for homeless pets. We are working towards the day when no pets are killed simply because they do not have homes.
Promote and support development of the local Shreveport Symphony, the Nena Plant Wideman competition, and to further the appreciation of symphonic music and allied arts through education
To reduce the numbe of homeless cats in the shreveport-bossier community and surrounding areas by providing trapping services and transporation to spay/neuter clinic.to assist low income caregivers in providing proper nutrituition for…
Adoption of amimals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shreveport Regional Arts Council and the most unlike its peers is Settled Inn Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBINSONS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GEAUX 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIHAF K12 LEARNING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Settled Inn Village ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT BOSSIER ANIMAL RESCUE 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 North Louisiana · Kilpatrick Rose-Neath Foundation Inc · The Powers Foundation Inc · The Crow Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nell E Shehee Foundation Trust 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.