· Private foundation
Paul and Betty McDonald Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHIMP HAVEN | $11,225 |
| SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA - BHP BILLITON | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| SHREVEPORT GREEN | $3,000 |
| ROBINSON FILM CENTER | $3,000 |
| SHREVE MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE GLEN RETIREMENT SYSTEM | $2,000 |
| PET SAVERS INC | $2,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SHREVEPORT OPERA | $1,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA | $1,000 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA | $1,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF LOUISIANA | $1,000 |
| USS KIDD VETERANS MEMORIAL | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against -41% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 13 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
CHIMP HAVEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +189%- SSSOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +11%
- TGThe Glen Retirement System9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC)one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -41%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICAN NORTH LOUISIANAone grant, 2018 · $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.
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…
Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.
Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Louisiana realtors (lr) is a member-based trade association established to assist its members in the business of real estate in louisiana. lr represents its membership on important real estate-related issues to state and federal…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
The mission of the shreveport symphony, inc. is to provide classical music to northwest louisiana communities.the symphony offers diverse programs representing the community it serves in a series of 8 subscription concerts and 4 chamber…
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
Shreveport chamber of commerce provides various projects thoughout the year for chamber members.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Red River Film Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 34 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Glen Retirement System ↗
- Who funds PET SAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT OPERA ↗
- Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GREEN ↗
- Who funds BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FALMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC) ↗
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 · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · The Crow Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · J B Atkins Foundation · The Nelson Foundation · Zadeck Family Foundation · Noel Foundation Inc · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · Willis-Knighton Medical Center
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 Paul and Betty McDonald Foundation 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.