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Second Chance 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.
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 $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $69,500 |
| UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $44,969 |
| SOLUTIONS OF FOLSOM | $12,000 |
| LIVE OAK HIGH SCHOOL | $8,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,879 |
| BOGALUSA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VERTICLE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| SALMEN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NORTHSORE FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| KAIROS PRISON MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| RICH MAUTI CANCER FUND | $2,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BLACK AND BLUE FISHING CLUB | $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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Second Chance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- CRCOVINGTON ROTARY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +29%
- NFNorthshore Food Bank3× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +57%
- TKTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- STST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $26k
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.
The company is dedicated to providing assistance through treatment and helpline services to individuals and families who may be affected by problem gambling, substance abuse, or suicide.
Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The dual mission of southwest louisiana law center is to provide first rate legal services to the unemployed and economically disadvantaged residents of southwest louisiana and to utilize the organization's legal capabilities for the…
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 alleviate hunger in central louisiana
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.
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Louisiana Council Boy Scouts of America and the most unlike its peers is St Tammany Outreach for the Prevention of Suicide Inc Stops. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 57 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 UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RICH MAUTI CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Tammany Outreach for the Prevention of Suicide Inc STOPS ↗
- Who funds Serenity by the Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Northshore Community Foundation · Al & Diane Kramer Foundation Inc · Rocker Family Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Goldring Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Second Chance 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.
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.