· Public charity
Sugar Bowl
Established to seek out, promote, finance, sponsor, schedule, conduct, and operate an annual calendar of local, state, national and international amateur and collegiate sporting events in the greater new orleans area and the state of louisiana, for the [cont'd on sch o] purpose of generating tourism via amateur athletics.
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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $408k
- $250k+3 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE | $5,750,000 |
| BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC | $5,750,000 |
| THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF FOUNDATION | $245,880 |
| NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS | $100,000 |
| BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME | $62,500 |
| KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB | $22,500 |
| LOUISIANA SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $22,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 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 FY2025, 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
- SCSOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE6× · 2017–2025 · $32M · revenue +71%
- TBTHE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $32M · revenue +65%
- LHLouisiana High School Athletic Association4× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +2%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP HOST COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2020 · $5.6M · revenue -97% · 61% of their budget
- LSLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5.1M
- FSFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5.1M
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 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…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
The lsu real estate and facilities foundation's mission is to promote the educational and cultural welfare of lsu, and to develop, expand and improve the lsu's usefulness to the citizens of louisiana and the united states of america and to…
The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…
To promote, regulate, and control all recognized intercollegiate athletics sponsored by the member institutions through the maintenance of high standards of honor and fair play
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation in. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 34 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 SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP HOST COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT CITY FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana High School Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREES DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE OF SPORT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN LEADERS IN SPORTS ↗
- Who funds KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION 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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sugar Bowl 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.