· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KAIROS PRISON MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| NORTHSORE FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| RICH MAUTI CANCER FUND | $2,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| BLACK AND BLUE FISHING CLUB | $1,000 |
| RECREATIONAL FISHERIES RESOURCE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Second Chance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 69%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCOVINGTON ROTARY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +42%
- NFNorthshore Food Bank3× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +84%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Serenity by the Lake Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Second Chance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Chance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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