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Robert L Pierce Foundation at a glance

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Robert L Pierce 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.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$180kHuman Services$154kHealth$85kCrime & Legal$80kEducation$66kPhilanthropy$32kHousing & Shelter$32kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GALATOIRE FOUNDATION INC$22,850
FORE KIDS FOUNDATION INC$15,000
HOPE HOUSE INC$15,000
ST SCHOLASTICA ACADEMY$12,500
HEALING WITH HORSES LOUISIANA$10,000
THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION$7,500
STARC OF LOUISIANA$3,000
NORTHSHORE COURT FOUNDATION INC$1,000
FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 43$500
BROOKE IT FORWARD FOUNDATION$200
NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY$200
NAMI SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA$200
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BROOKE IT FORWARD FOUNDATION: $200 → 16%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1k → 23%THE FAMILY PROMISE OF ST TAMMANY PARISH: $15k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589k · 15 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$589k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +54%
  • CA
    Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House
    4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +240%
  • TK
    THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • EC
    ECHO COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • FR
    Family Reach Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +39%
  • IA
    IVA'S AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -86%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Congenital Heart Foundation of Louisiana

Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.

Health
2
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
3
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
4
Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Orleans Sheriff's Office Foundation
Crime & Legal
6
Together Louisiana

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…

Public Benefit
7
Heart of Louisiana Humane Society
Animals
8
St Etienne Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Nami Ruston Louisiana
Human Services
10
The Please Foundation

The Please Foundation provides mentoring, leadership training, and scholarships to at-risk students in New Orleans. The Foundation provides all the tools necessary for students to attend and succeed in college preparatory high school. The…

Youth Development
11
Orleans County Child Advocacy Center Inc
Health
12
The Ashley Code Project

The Ashley Code Project is a non-profit organization created with the purpose of helping fulfill Ashley's dream of finding a cure for cancer by raising funds for pediatric brain cancer research and treatment in the New Orleans area.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brooke It Forward 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

27 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. 27 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PERPETUAL ABUNDANCE OF LOVE: $80,000 · OtherPERPETUAL ABUNDANCE OF LOVEST SCHOLASTICA ACADEMY: $62,500 · OtherST SCHOLASTICA ACADEMYTHE LOUISIANA OPEN INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE LOUISIANA OPEN INCHOPE HOUSE INC: $15,200 · OtherHOPE HOUSE INCHEALING WITH HORSES LOUISIANA: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $18,100 · Other+13 moreFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS: $133,000 · PhilanthropyFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA…GALATOIRE FOUNDATION INC: $32,300 · PhilanthropyGALATOIRE FOUNDATION INCTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $74,250 · Human ServicesTHE KELLY GIBSO…Family Reach Alliance: $15,000 · Human ServicesFamily Reach Al…+2 more: $1,200 · Human ServicesChildrens Advocacy Center - Hope House: $80,000 · Civil RightsChildrens Adv…ST TAMMANY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthST TAMMANY …SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · HealthSHRINERS HO…American Heart Association Inc: $18,000 · HealthAmerican He…St Tammany Outreach for the Prevention of Suicide Inc STOPS: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $2,750 · HealthECHO COMMUNITY: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationSHINE YOUR LIGHT INC: $2,000 · Education
Other$225,800Philanthropy$165,300Human Services$90,450Civil Rights$80,000Health$68,250Youth Development$25,000Education$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS: $133,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center - Hope House: $80,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $74,250 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA OPEN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGALATOIRE FOUNDATION INC: $32,300 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetECHO COMMUNITY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetST TAMMANY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $15,200 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFamily Reach Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTARC OF LOUISIANA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIVA'S AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Tammany Outreach for the Prevention of Suicide Inc STOPS: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSHINE YOUR LIGHT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN FORE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETANOIA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Greater New Orlea…Northshore Community …Forekids Foundations …Shell USA Company Fou…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Al & Diane Kramer Fou…Oscar J Tolmas Charit…United Way of Southea…Community Foundation …Textron Charitable Tr…Greater Houston Commu…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Northshore Community Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Shell USA Company Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Al & Diane Kramer Foundation Inc · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Robert L Pierce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert L Pierce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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