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Risen Star 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.

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Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
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Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$75kReligion$6kHousing & Shelter$5kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$2kFood & Nutrition$1kArts & Culture$500Youth Development$100
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
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Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, 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.

area typical 15%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $5k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services
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Turning Tables

Turning tables was built by industry mentors and introduced to new orleans with its first graduating class of externs in 2019. what we found that year was a thirst for community within the hospitality industry among black and brown…

Employment
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Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp

Who we are: southeast louisiana legal services (slls) is the largest non-profit law firm in louisiana whose mission is to achieve justice through free civil legal aid to low-income people by direct case work, advocacy, and community…

Crime & Legal
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Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
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Train Up a Child Nola

Providing educational opportunities and support to underserved youth in New Orleans.

Youth Development
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Health Through Walls Inc

HtW was created to assists prisons in resource poor countries test treat and implement measures to control and stop the spread of contagious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, other STI's, TB, Cholera, COVID-19 and other emerging infectious…

International
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Haiti Teen Challenge

Building godly leaders of integrity so Haitians are empowered to restore THEIR nation for God's glory.

International
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Total Community Action Inc

Promote and develop economic opportunity in the city of new orleans, to promote the education and welfare of the people of new orleans, and to mobolize such human and financial resources as may be available to combat poverty in new orleans

Human Services
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Louisiana United Methodist Children & Family Services Inc

The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…

Human Services
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Be Loud Studios

Be loud studios amplifies kid confidence through radio and digital media production.

Education
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Mortel High Hopes for Haiti Foundation
Philanthropy
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Eden Garden Orphanage

Eden Garden Orphanage cares for orphans in and from the country of Haiti, preventing the otherwise likely outcome of an early death due to malnutrition or disease and /or a life of prostitution or crime.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty's Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triumph Over Kid Cancer 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION — $72,500 · HealthTRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION+1 more — $500 · HealthSACRED HEART CHURCH EL PASO — $5,000 · OtherSACRED HEART …CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMM…NO MEDICAL MISSION — $1,500 · OtherNO MEDICAL MI…SMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN I…SISTERS OF THE LIVING — $1,000 · OtherSISTERS OF TH…ST BERDNARDS FOR AUTISMKINGS VALLEY COLLIES — $500 · OtherTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $1,000 · Food & NutritionSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 · InternationalNEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE — $500 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $100 · Education
Health$73,000Other$11,000Human Services$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,000International$1,000Arts & Culture$500Education$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION — $72,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Risen Star 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Risen Star Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Risen Star Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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