How much did ROBERT L PIERCE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$127kCivil Rights$80kHealth$68kHuman Services$68kYouth Development$25kEducation$5kRecreation & Sports$4kFood & Nutrition$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$191k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

orleans

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $16k
$10k–50k4 grants · $75k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

ECHO COMMUNITY$25,000
ST SCHOLASTICA ACADEMY$25,000
FORE KIDS FOUNDATION INC$15,000
PERPETUAL ABUNDANCE OF LOVE$10,000
THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION$7,500
GALATOIRE FOUNDATION INC$4,500
ST TAMMANY OUTREACH FOR THE PREVENTION OF SUICIDE INC STOPS$2,500
MORE THAN FORE$1,000
THE SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION$500
METANOIA$200
HOPE HOUSE INC$200

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$515k · 14 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$515k

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+10%

Still filing today

79%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

FK
FORE KIDS FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +40%
CA
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER - HOPE HOUSE
4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +240%
TK
THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +54%

Funded once

TF
THE FAMILY PROMISE OF ST TAMMANY PARISH
one grant, 2021 · $15k
DS
DAX SLATE AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -86%
FEEDING AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +77%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Louisiana State University School of Med

Private, tax-exempt faculty group practice that was established to support (cont'd on sch o)the charitable, scientific, and educational missions of the lsu health sciences center in new orelans, particularly as they relate to its schools…

Health

University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education

Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

To inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans and its future.

Health

New Orleans Culinary &

To create world-class culinary and hospitality facilities, programs, and research that drive workforce and economic development for the new orleans region.

Unclassified

Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education

Lha Foundation

The primary purpose of the lha foundation is to administer hhs grants and (continued on schedule o) other grants and contracts.

Health

Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in

The sole mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in lsu health shreveport and to properly steward contributions toward its support.

Philanthropy

University of New Orleans Research and

To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.

Health

Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

Louisiana alliance for nonprofits is a statewide organization that advocates for the nonprofit community and strengthens the effectiveness of those committed to improving louisiana.

Philanthropy

Cancer Association of Greater New Orlean

To fight cancer through research, education and service to patients and their families.

Health

New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund inc. is a seed capital fund established by greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup fund's…

Community Improvement

New Orleans Sponsoring Committee

The mission of Together New Orleans (TNO) is to give faith and community based organizations an opportunity to develop the leadership capacity of their members and affect change on a larger scale thank they could alone.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iva's Amelogenesis Imperfecta Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

13%

6,113/47,698

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/22

Grantees still filing

17/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$198,400Philanthropy$127,450Civil Rights$80,000Health$68,250Human Services$67,750Youth Development$25,000Education$4,500

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.

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 FoundationLA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc · Northshore Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation ROBERT L PIERCE 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHINE YOUR LIGHT INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562672232 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHINE YOUR LIGHT INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Robert L Pierce Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert L Pierce Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROBERT L PIERCE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert L Pierce Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ROBERT L PIERCE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert L Pierce Foundation?

More from the funding graph