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Ochsner Health System
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Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $622,073 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $762,723 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,650 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 · FY2017
- Under $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $308k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTUS HEALTH PLAN | $100,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $75,000 |
| REBUILD LOUISIANA | $50,000 |
| 2018 NOLA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| FORWARD JEFFERSON CORPORATION | $27,500 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC | $25,000 |
| BETTER THAN EZRA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LOUISIANA FIRST FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $20,500 |
| PUERCO RICO (HOGS FOR A CAUSE) | $20,000 |
| TRES DOUX FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of your 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.
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 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…
Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…
The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
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…
To improve opportunities for cancer research in Louisiana and enhance educational efforts regarding prevention and control over cancer.
Saints & pelicans foundation promotes fund raising to help restore louisiana's fragile wetlands, which have been severely damaged by major hurricanes and the bp plc oil spill.
To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Metanoia Inc. 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.
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 26 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 Christus Health Plan ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 2018 NOLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REBUILD LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FORWARD JEFFERSON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER THAN EZRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
- Who funds Louisiana First Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc ↗
- Who funds TRES DOUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds STUART HALL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds St Frances Cabrini Hospital Foundation OF ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds METANOIA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA FIRE SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ochsner Clinic Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · The Azby Fund · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · J Edgar Monroe 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 Ochsner Health System 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.