· Private foundation
Pinhook Foundation Inc
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 $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL CARMEL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| LOURDES FOUNDATION | $96,100 |
| Moncus Park Legacy Campaign | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA | $75,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBACADIANA | $55,735 |
| ACADIANA ANIMAL AIDE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS DISASTER | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF ACADIANA | $20,000 |
| SOUTH LA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $15,000 |
| SPAY NATION - WILDCAT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Acadiana Veteran Alliance | $15,000 |
| First Baptist Christian School | $13,479 |
| St Bernard Catholic School | $10,030 |
| CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- LFLourdes Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $521k · revenue +68%
- LCLafayette Central Park Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $339k · revenue +22%
- AAAcadiana Animal Aid9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- DFDesormeaux Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +29%
- LELOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +107%
- PJPOPE JOHN PAUL II SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $16k
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 strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
The Organization is dedicated to bringing about change in institutions, laws, politics, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow individuals to live free of violence.
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 Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…
Public access television
The mission of acadiana legal services corporation is to provide exceptional civil legal services by advocating for fairness, protection, and justice. our vision for the state is for these services to be easy and timely accessible.
To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Acadiana Outreach Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Acadiana Veteran Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 61 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 Acadiana ↗
- Who funds Lourdes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Central Park Inc ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Animal Aid ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOODNET OF LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA VETERAN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Desormeaux Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds DAYONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Downtown Lafayette Unlimited ↗
- Who funds LARCINC ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UP WITH PEOPLE 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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation · Mills Family Foundation Inc · James D Moncus Family Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · The Rucks Family Foundation · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Billy & Clara Mosing Foundation · United Way of Acadiana Inc · Zuschlag Family Foundation · Fred & Babette Werner Family 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 Pinhook Foundation Inc 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.
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