· Public charity
Southern Eye Bank Foundation
The SOUTHERN EYE BANK FOUNDATION supports the greater new orleans foundation (gnof), a community foundation, and other public charities that promote and achieve the goals of gnof, which goals include the enrichment of life in the greater new orleans (continued on sch.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVANCING SIGHT NETWORK | $230,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION | $32,375 |
| ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $23,725 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $8,512 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Southern Eye Bank 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ASADVANCING SIGHT NETWORK2× · 2023–2024 · $360k · revenue +12%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $159k · revenue +16%
- STST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LDLEGACY DONOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -24%
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- HAHEALTH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF LOUISIANAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +151%
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 lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
The society's exempt purpose is to extend medical knowledge, advance medical science, elevate the standards of medical education and training, enforce just medical laws and regulations, promote dialogue and cooperation among physicians and…
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
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…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
No board approved mission statement
To restore, maintain, and imprive health of the people in the communities we serve.
We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate. ochsner will be a global medical and academic leader who will save and change lives. we will shape the future of healthcare through our integrated health system, fueled by the passion and…
The mission of pinnacle family health is that we strive to provide affirming and inclusive care that is affordable and comprehensive for children and adults in northeast louisiana.
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,…
We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Thomas Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Radio for the Blind & Print Handicapped. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 ADVANCING SIGHT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Radio for the Blind & Print Handicapped ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · 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 Southern Eye Bank 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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