· Private foundation
Ronnie & Gwen Briggs Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k15 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESUITS OF THE US CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCE | $51,482 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $20,000 |
| FRANCISCAN WORKS | $10,000 |
| JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS | $10,000 |
| GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $5,000 |
| JESUIT WHITE HOUSE RETREAT | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $5,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION JESUIT CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $3,750 |
| IGNATION SPIRTUALITY PROJECT | $2,500 |
| GUEST HOUSE | $2,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH | $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 (FY17–24, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +99% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- THTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $303k · revenue +353%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +147%
- HIHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CRCRISTO REY JESUITone grant, 2017 · $50k
- JUJESUIT UKRAINE RELIEF EFFORTS - OFFICE OF THE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HNHOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
As a related entity of unity of greater new orleans, 2222 tulane avenue apartments nonprofit has a mission to reduce, prevent and end homelessness.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Enhance the dignity and quality of life for individuals, families, and communities by eliminating barriers to opportunity and helping people in need reach their fullest potential through employment and workforce development…
Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.
Live the words of catholic educator janet erskine stuart,"education is formation, not just information." faculty is dedicated to work with parents to help each child build a foundation for a life centered on a love of learning, desire to…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
Family service counsels and strengthens individuals and families improving their quality of life
To provide a state of the art facility for job training, employment, and community support for those in the new orleans east community who face barriers to employment and training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 105 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 THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP STANISLAUS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY PLANTATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds Family Reach Alliance ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Works ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · The Edward L Rispone Family Foundation · Patrick F Taylor 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 Ronnie & Gwen Briggs 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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