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Southland 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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Recreation & Sports$64kArts & Culture$42kEducation$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kReligion$6kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$4,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$198k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tiger Athletic Foundation$20,000
The Strand Theatre of Shreveport Co$10,000
Krewe of Gemini of the Ark-la-Tex I$10,000
St Joseph Catholic School$7,500
Independence Bowl Foundation$6,250
Northwestern State University Found$5,000
St Pius X Catholic Church$4,500
Demons Unlimited Foundation$3,000
Loyala College Prep$2,000
Volunteers of America$1,000
Holy Trinity Catholic Chruch$1,000
St Pius X Catholic Church$300
Sunday Missal Service$300
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $5k → 17%Sunday Missal Service: $300 → 13%SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: $10k → 22%Northwestern State University Found: $5k → 29%Loyala College Prep: $2k → 22%NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 29%Holy Trinity Catholic Chruch: $1k → 22%DEMONS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $8k → 29%Volunteers of America: $1k → 22%Demons Unlimited Foundation: $3k → 29%FLYER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $200 → 22%St Pius X Catholic Church: $5k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 22%St Pius X Catholic Church: $300 → 22%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $8k → 22%ST PIUS X CATHOLIC CHURCH: $300 → 22%St Joseph Catholic School: $8k → 22%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$105k · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$105k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • TA
    TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    THE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue -13%
  • SJ
    St Joseph Catholic School
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • SR
    SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Louisiana State University At Eunice Foundation

The lsue foundation supports programs and activities designed to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to advance, promote or otherwise benefit lsu eunice.

Education
3
Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation

The Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation (SLUF) is a 501(c)(3) corporation charged with securing, managing and stewarding private gifts in support of Southeastern Louisiana University. Private support increases the University's…

Education
4
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
5
Friends of the Lsu Museum of Art

The purpose of the organization is to support the financial well being and advancement of the programs and activities of the LSU Museum of Art.

Arts & Culture
6
Southern University of Shreveport Foundation Inc

To promote the educational and cultural welfare of southern univ at shreveport and the surrounding community sus

Education
7
Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in Shreveport

The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.

Philanthropy
8
Lsu Health Sciences Building Foundation in Shreveport

All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.

Education
9
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
10
McNeese State University Alumni Association

Support Higher Education

11
Sul Ross State University Foundation

Fundraising support for sul ross state university in order to support the mission including operations, projects, and programs.

Education
12
Lion Athletic Association

To assist the southeastern louisiana university's athletics department by providing financial support for scholarships, operations, and athletic facilities

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nsu Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION — $21,480 · OtherTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATIONAMERICAN RED CROSS — $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSSt Joseph Catholic School — $15,000 · OtherSt Joseph Catholic SchoolKREWE OF GEMINI OF THE ARK-LA-TEX — $10,000 · OtherKREWE OF GEMINI OF THE ARK-LA-TEXSt Pius X Catholic Church — $5,100 · OtherSt Pius X Catholic ChurchNorthwestern State University Found — $5,000 · OtherNorthwestern State University Found+5 more — $4,500 · Other+5 moreTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONDEMONS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationDEMONS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION+1 more — $500 · EducationINDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsINDEPENDE…SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $5,000 · Health
Other$76,080Education$51,500Recreation & Sports$12,500Arts & Culture$10,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION — $21,480 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEMONS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKREWE OF GEMINI OF THE ARK-LA-TEX — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNSU FOUNDATION INC — $500 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.

Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · American Electric Power Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Southland 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Southland Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Southland Foundation 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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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