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Ochsner Health System

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$763k
Granted FY2017
26
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $622,073, the rows itemized in this filing. The $762,723 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $140,650 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 · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $308k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LOUISIANA FIRST FOUNDATION$25,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS$25,000
BETTER THAN EZRA FOUNDATION$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$20,500
TRES DOUX FOUNDATION$20,000
PUERCO RICO (HOGS FOR A CAUSE)$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$15,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$15,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CHRISTUS HEALTH PLAN: $100k → 14%NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%BETTER THAN EZRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%REBUILD LOUISIANA: $50k → 19%CHRISTUS HEALTH: $10k → 19%GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $25k → 23%FORWARD JEFFERSON CORPORATION: $28k → 15%LOUISIANA FIRST FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%PUERCO RICO (HOGS FOR A CAUSE): $20k → 23%FOREKIDS FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE: $8k → 23%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $15k → 15%SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $10k → 23%LOUISIANA FIRE SOCCER CLUB: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $21k → 23%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $75k → 23%STUART HALL: $10k → 23%NEW ORLEANS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $8k → 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.
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 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
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
3
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
4
Nola Business Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
5
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
6
New Orleans Scottish Rite Foundatio
Arts & Culture
7
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

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.

—
8
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…

—
9
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
10
Saints & Pelicans Foundation (Fka Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal)

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.

—
11
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
12
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REBUILD LOUISIANA: $50,000 · OtherREBUILD LOUISIANA2018 NOLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other2018 NOLA FOUNDATIONSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS O…GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 · OtherGREATER NEW ORLEANS INCSTUART HALL: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $10,000 · OtherSISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY MOTHERHOUSE & NOVITIATE: $10,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUELOUISIANA FIRE SOCCER CLUB: $9,000 · OtherAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $7,500 · OtherChristus Health Plan: $100,000 · HealthChristus Health PlanAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY …LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLEGACY DONOR FOUNDATIONSt Frances Cabrini Hospital Foundation OF ALEXANDRIA: $10,000 · HealthSt Frances Cabrini Hospi…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $75,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLE…University of New Orleans Foundation: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of New …BETTER THAN EZRA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBETTER THA…HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHOGS FOR T…FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS: $9,073 · PhilanthropyFOREKIDS F…NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSHORE…Louisiana First Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLouisiana …TRES DOUX FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTRES DOUX …METANOIA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETANOIA I…FORWARD JEFFERSON CORPORATION: $27,500 · Community ImprovementJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $20,500 · International
Other$224,000Health$135,000Education$100,000Philanthropy$60,073Arts & Culture$55,000Community Improvement$27,500International$20,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILD LOUISIANA: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budget2018 NOLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFORWARD JEFFERSON CORPORATION: $27,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetLouisiana First Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBETTER THAN EZRA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $20,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRES DOUX FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUART HALL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETANOIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSt Frances Cabrini Hospital Foundation OF ALEXANDRIA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS: $9,073 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA FIRE SOCCER CLUB: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Ochsner Clinic Founda…The Greater New Orlea…Goldring Family Found…Shell USA Company Fou…Lauricella Land Compa…The Azby FundLouise H Moffett Fami…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…The Almar Foundationd…Baptist Community Min…United Way of Southea…J Edgar Monroe Founda…
Ochsner Clinic FoundationLA36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ochsner Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 26 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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