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Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation

The ROTARY CLUB OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATION's primary purpose is to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations which work to fulfill our vision for children in the east baton rouge area.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$106kHuman Services$89kYouth Development$87kArts & Culture$80kPhilanthropy$66kCommunity Improvement$58kAnimals$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $76k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION$16,050
THE EMERGE CENTER INC$10,000
REDSTICK CARES$10,000
LOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC$10,000
LINE 4 LINE$10,000
FRONT YARD BIKES$10,000
100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE$10,000
CAPITAL AREA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC$7,000
THE ARC BATON ROUGE$7,000
ST LILLIAN ACADEMY$7,000
LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$7,000
ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$7,000
POLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC$7,000
FRIENDS OF THE BATON ROUGE ZOO$7,000
HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $5k → 17%REDSTICK CARES: $10k → 19%YMCA OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $10k → 19%YMCA OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $10k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $10k → 19%THE ARC BATON ROUGE: $7k → 19%YMCA OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $10k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $7k → 19%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$453k · 18 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$453k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-19%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TE
    THE EMERGE CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +286%
  • LY
    LOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +43%
  • BR
    Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROTARY DISTRICT 6200 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue -70%
  • LV
    LOCKPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue -95%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
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
Baton Rouge College Preparatory Inc

Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.

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2
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
3
Baton Rouge Early Childhood Education Collaborative Inc

To facilitate the collaboration of organizations to provide early childhood education and support to families and caregivers of under-resourced children, in preparing them for kindergarten

Community Improvement
4
Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance Inc

Drive solutions to common issues with an emphasis on workforce development and safety performance.

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5
Louisiana Resource Center for Educators

Louisiana Resource Center for Educators is dedicated to supporting innovation in education for students, teachers, administrators, higher education, and families.

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6
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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7
West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce

The purpose of the chamber is to initiate, stimulate and sustain planned business and residential growth and to contribute to an environment conducive to a superior quality of life for the citizens of west baton rouge parish and to engage…

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8
Baton Rouge Bar Associationinc

Primary exempt purpose is to encourage and promote continuing legal education for its members, advance the rule of law, and uphold the honor of the courts and the legal profession.

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9
Baton Rouge Area Chamber

The mission of the chamber is to provide leadership for the advancement of economic vitality and quality of life for its members and the total community.

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10
Mid City Redevelopment Alliance

Mid-city redevelopment alliance is a chartered member of the neighborworks america network of excellence. the 250-member network operates using best practices that ensure strong business operations, organized and strategic data management,…

Community Improvement
11
Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center

To offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide, homicide and violence.

Health
12
Baton Rouge Alliance for Students

The alliance's work focuses on empowering families, elevating community, and engaging leaders.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc; the most unlike its peers is Front Yard Bikes. 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

45 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
25/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC: $50,000 · OtherLOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INCLOCKPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $23,786 · OtherLOCKPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $21,650 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $20,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,160 · OtherGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 · OtherRESEARCH PARK CORPORATION: $10,000 · Other100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD: $10,000 · OtherTHE ROTARY DISTRICT 6200 FOUNDATION: $24,075 · OtherTHE ROTARY DISTRICT 6200 FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF BATON ROUGE ZOO: $17,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BATON ROUGE ZOOHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $12,000 · OtherFRONT YARD BIKES: $10,000 · OtherCANCER SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $45,402 · Other+8 moreKIDS ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS ORCHESTRA IN…THE WALLS PROJECT: $27,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLS PROJECTArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council of G…OPERA LOUISIANE INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA LOUISIANE I…DOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDOUGLAS MANSHIP S…LINE 4 LINE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLINE 4 LINETHE EMERGE CENTER INC: $66,082 · PhilanthropyTHE EMERGE CEN…BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $16,050 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AR…BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE CO…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG ME…THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIFE OF …REDSTICK CARES: $10,000 · Human ServicesREDSTICK CAR…POLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesPOLICY INSTI…THE ARC BATON ROUGE: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC BATO…MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $5,000 · Human ServicesMADDIE'S FOO…Franciscan Baton Rouge Inc: $30,000 · EducationFrancisca…SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSUNSHINE …SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN …ST LILLIAN ACADEMY: $7,000 · EducationST LILLIA…MANNERS OF THE HEART INC: $5,000 · EducationMANNERS O…Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $25,000 · InternationalTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $16,000 · InternationalBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$294,073Arts & Culture$110,000Philanthropy$92,132Human Services$76,000Education$62,000International$41,000Youth Development$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EMERGE CENTER INC: $66,082 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetLOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC: $50,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFranciscan Baton Rouge Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT: $27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY DISTRICT 6200 FOUNDATION: $24,075 over 1y, 16% of budgetLOCKPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $23,786 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BATON ROUGE ZOO: $17,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $17,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOPERA LOUISIANE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,160 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRESEARCH PARK CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBATON ROUGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPOLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC BATON ROUGE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LILLIAN ACADEMY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBREC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BATON ROUGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMANNERS OF THE HEART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Baton Rouge Area Foun…The Huey & Angelina W…The Credit Bureau of …Albemarle FoundationCapital Area United W…The Merice Boo Johnst…Irene W & Cb Penningt…The Charles Lamar Fam…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Shell USA Company Fou…Pennington Family Fou…Baton Rouge Alliance …
Baton Rouge Area FoundationLA67.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · Baton Rouge Alliance for Students

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 Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Baton Rouge 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 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 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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