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Saints & Pelicans Foundation (FKA Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal)

Saints & pelicans foundation promotes fund raising to help restore louisiana's fragile wetlands, which have been severely damaged by major hurricanes and the bp plc oil spill.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MFood & Nutrition$559kInternational$250kArts & Culture$250kHuman Services$249kCommunity Improvement$200kEducation$144kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPublic Benefit$25kOther$520k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
$91,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Team Gleason Foundation$91,000
Massachusetts General Hospital$9,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Team Gleason Foundation: $91k → 23%Covenant House of New Orleans: $50k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $83k → 23%Red Cross: $25k → 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.

1
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank

Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
4
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.

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5
Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Louisiana Charter School Alliance

The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…

Education
7
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
8
The Food Bank of Central Louisiana

To alleviate hunger in central louisiana

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9
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education
10
New Orleans Sponsoring Committee -Together New Orleans

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
11
Community Foundation of Acadiana

The mission of the Community Foundation of Acadiana is to build legacies and improve communities by connecting generous people to the causes they care about.

Philanthropy
12
Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana Inc

Provide food, hope and dignity to our neighbors who struggle with hunger, and lead the movement to alleviate hunger through education, collaboration and advocacy.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Team Gleason 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr15%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr15%45%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
14%
3,188/22,666

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.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $766,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $190,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDEREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS — $100,000 · PhilanthropyREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANSCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA — $83,333 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUI…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $375,871 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOO…Feeding the Gulf Coast — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Gulf C…FEEDING LOUISIANA — $83,333 · Food & NutritionFEEDING LOUISIANATHE SALVATION ARMY — $250,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC — $100,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS MISSION INCGOT FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherGOT FOUNDATION INCUNITED HOUMA NATION INC — $50,000 · OtherUNITED HOUMA NATION INCNicholls State University Foundation — $100,000 · OtherNicholls State Universit…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $43,774 · OtherUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUN…CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $50,000 · OtherCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $25,000 · Other+2 more — $20,350 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250,000 · InternationalNew Orleans Mardi Gras Indian — $250,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $108,333 · Human ServicesTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $91,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $50,000 · Human ServicesBayou Community Foundation — $200,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$1,139,333Food & Nutrition$559,204Other$739,124International$250,000Arts & Culture$250,000Human Services$249,333Community Improvement$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $766,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $375,871 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBayou Community Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $190,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $108,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS — $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNicholls State University Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $91,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA — $83,333 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $43,774 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $25,000 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.

Blue Cross & Blue Shi…The Greater New Orlea…Baton Rouge Area Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…Tbs Spark FoundationCommunity Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana FoundationLA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Tbs Spark Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization Saints & Pelicans Foundation (FKA Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal) 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    5report 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

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Saints & Pelicans Foundation (FKA Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal)?

    Find your warmest path to Saints & Pelicans Foundation (FKA Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal) 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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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