· Private foundation
Sharon and Claude B Pennington Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $392k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED CAJUN NAVY | $1,279,437 |
| WEST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $618,030 |
| EAST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $338,638 |
| EAST BATON ROUGE DISTRICT ATTORNEY | $260,000 |
| MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH II | $122,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| IBERVILLE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $69,345 |
| CITY OF PLAQUEMINE POLICE DEPT | $50,000 |
| THE EMERGE CENTER | $50,000 |
| 18TH JUDICIAL DIST ATTORNEYS OFC | $30,000 |
| ST JOHN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CAPITAL RENAISSANCE INTL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 80% of your 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.
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.
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.
To improve opportunities for cancer research in Louisiana and enhance educational efforts regarding prevention and control over cancer.
The brain institute of louisiana is a private, non-profit research institute with a primary focus on enhancing brain science in louisiana.
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
Infrastructure Solutions
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
To develop a coordinated cancer research and educational program that will optimize discovery and development of innovative cancer therapies; lead to innovative clinial treatment programs offering new opportunities for early detection,…
The mission of the baton rouge health district is joining forces to create a culture of health.
Nsbr-f bon carre was created as a support organization of new schools for baton rouge. in furtherance of nsbr's exempt purpose to bring excellent school options to baton rouge, nsbr-f bon carre will provide a quality temporary or long-term…
To provide high quality comprehensive health care services for the under-served population of east baton rouge parish and the surrounding areas regardless of ability to pay.
The purpose and mission of the louisiana perinatal justice alliance is to improve the reproductive care and health outcomes for all louisiana families, to promote evidence-based maternal and infant care, to advocate for parenting families,…
The mission of the association is to promote rural health as a distinct concern in louisiana; to serve as a forum for a unified voice for healthcare providers, public officials, healthcare workers, educators, and consumers working to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is General Health System Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 47 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 United Cajun Navy ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St George International School ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMANS ↗
- Who funds GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLA BOWMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of the Lake Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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: Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · William Edwin Montan Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Sparkhound Foundation Inc · Pennington Family Foundation · Rockhold Family Foundation Inc · Our Lady of the Lake Hospital 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 Sharon and Claude B Pennington Family 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.
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