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Ochsner Clinic Foundation

We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.

$8.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
124
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$816k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$19MEducation$15MYouth Development$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.1MRecreation & Sports$2.1MArts & Culture$1.9MPublic Benefit$658kPhilanthropy$641kOther$0
02FY2024 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 124 grants below total $6,706,325, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,271,730 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,565,405 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $180k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
$15,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$6.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC$815,660
LSU WELLNESS CENTER$750,000
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC$500,000
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC$354,695
URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA$350,000
FLETCHER TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$201,200
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$200,000
THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC$160,000
KID SMART$160,000
TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS$157,000
THE GLEASON INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$150,000
ENTERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$125,000
SON OF A SAINT$125,000
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS$123,512
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$116,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $150k → 17%GIVING HOPE INC: $6k → 23%LOVE ONE LOUISIANA FOUNDATION: $60k → 19%MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $10k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $40k → 14%RAPHAEL VILLAGE: $15k → 23%RAPHAEL VILLAGE: $12k → 23%RAPHAEL VILLAGE: $12k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE INC: $10k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $10k → 23%THE GLEASON INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $150k → 23%TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $81k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MISSION SERVICES INC: $10k → 15%TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $157k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $10k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $350k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $175k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $25k → 23%HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS: $11k → 23%HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS: $8k → 23%HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS: $8k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $6k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $6k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $6k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 114 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

114 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
103

Total granted

$39M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LC
    LOUISIANA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $9.6M · revenue +361% · 37% of their budget
  • LF
    LSU FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +67%
  • SO
    SON OF A SAINT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • LH
    LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM
    one grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +24%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -10%
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.

1
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Louisiana State Medical Society

The society's exempt purpose is to extend medical knowledge, advance medical science, elevate the standards of medical education and training, enforce just medical laws and regulations, promote dialogue and cooperation among physicians and…

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3
Lsu Alumni Association

The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…

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4
University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
5
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
6
Louisiana Foundation for Excellence in Science Technology and Education

To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.

Philanthropy
7
Louisiana Cancer Foundation for Research and Education Inc

To improve opportunities for cancer research in Louisiana and enhance educational efforts regarding prevention and control over cancer.

Health
8
Louisiana State Medical Society Educational and Research Foundation

The primary purpose of the foundation is to engage in and carry out scientific research in the fields of medical science, medical economics, public health, sociology, and related areas for the benefit of the interested public, medical…

Health
9
Lsu School of Medicine New Orleans Medical Alumni Association Inc

To act as a fundraising arm, in an agency relationship for the lsu health sciences center.

Education
10
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

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

Philanthropy
11
Louisiana State Nurses Association

The mission of lsna is to foster high standards for professional nursing practice for all registered nurses and advocate for quality healthcare for the citizens of louisiana

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12
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Zulu Community Services 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

234 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 234 of the 276 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
221/234
Grantees still filing
126/234
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISIANA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $9,573,854 · HealthLOUISIANA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERAmerican Heart Association Inc: $492,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $476,068 · Health+33 more: $2,822,204 · Health+33 moreDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,126,400 · OtherDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND…LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT: $1,150,000 · OtherLSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHRE…URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $568,000 · Other+97 more: $5,691,100 · Other+97 moreLSU FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · EducationLSU FOUNDATIONFletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc: $1,014,380 · EducationFletcher Technical Com…UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $862,660 · EducationUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT L…SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $750,000 · EducationSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYST…SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 · EducationSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $454,456 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $400,000 · Education+16 more: $1,131,796 · Education+16 moreLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT: $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyLSU HEALT…BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $632,126 · Philanthropy+9 moreSON OF A SAINT: $2,458,333 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $91,500 · Youth Development+4 more: $184,300 · Youth DevelopmentLafayette Central Park Inc: $1,300,000 · Recreation & SportsLOUISIANA FIRE SOCCER CLUB: $171,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $120,000 · Recreation & SportsMandeville Soccer Club: $86,750 · Recreation & SportsLafayette Youth Soccer Association: $65,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $136,833 · Recreation & SportsNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC: $609,695 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $410,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $172,000 · Arts & CultureFoundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting: $134,800 · Arts & CultureLouisiana First Foundation Inc: $133,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $337,300 · Arts & Culture
Health$13,364,226Other$12,535,500Education$9,123,292Philanthropy$3,782,126Youth Development$2,734,133Recreation & Sports$1,879,583Arts & Culture$1,796,795

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOUISIANA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $9,573,854 over 3y, 37% of budgetDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,126,400 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT: $3,000,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $2,458,333 over 4y, 14% of budgetLafayette Central Park Inc: $1,300,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetFletcher Technical Community College Foundation Inc: $1,014,380 over 5y, 45% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $862,660 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $750,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC: $609,695 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $568,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $492,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $476,068 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $454,456 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $410,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVES: $367,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $321,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBATON ROUGE HEALTH DISTRICT: $265,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetGRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC: $260,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetLSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER - SHREVEPORT FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE: $241,392 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $231,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLOUISIANA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $208,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation: $194,333 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $185,370 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFETY BLITZ FOUNDATION INC: $184,806 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $184,350 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $180,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFranciscan Baton Rouge Inc: $173,083 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKID SMART: $172,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLOUISIANA FIRE SOCCER CLUB: $171,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCOALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE: $168,750 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE IDEA VILLAGE INC: $158,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetTRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $157,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION D/B/A LAKE CHARLES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $137,698 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $137,300 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFoundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting: $134,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLouisiana First Foundation Inc: $133,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD JEFFERSON CORPORATION: $127,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetEntergy Charitable Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBREES DREAM FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $119,550 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $114,473 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: $112,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budget
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.

The Greater New Orlea…United Way of Southea…Baptist Community Min…Goldring Family Found…Baton Rouge Area Foun…New Orleans Community…Gayle and Tom Benson …Northshore Community …Ochsner Health SystemCommunity Foundation …Blue Cross & Blue Shi…The Almar Foundationd…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA80.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Baptist Community Ministries · Goldring Family Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Northshore Community Foundation · Ochsner Health System · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde 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 Ochsner Clinic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ochsner Clinic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    46report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 276 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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