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Tbs Spark 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TFAE RUN FOR EXCELLENCE | $2,500 |
| FIRM FOUNDATION OF HOUMA | $2,152 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA | $1,877 |
| THE HAVEN | $1,665 |
| LAFOURCHE ARC | $1,150 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| ANGELS' PLACE | $696 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOUISIANA | $635 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $600 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 13397 | $500 |
| UNITED HOUMA NATION | $500 |
| ASCENSION VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK | $420 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| SPCA OF TEXAS | $206 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $200 |
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 (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Tbs Spark 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. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MFMCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $9k · revenue +77%
- FOFRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +263%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- JTJOSHUA TREE MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $4k
- TFTERREBONNE FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCEone grant, 2019 · $3k
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +46%
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 arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
To provide summer camps for medically handicap children.
Providing information to disabled persons and their families.
To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
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…
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
Construct homes for low-income families.
Rendering health care services in rural areas, mainly to indigent care patients
Provides housing for elderly and disabled persons and families under section 207/223(f) of the national housing act under an agreement with the department of hud.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 63 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 ANGELS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA TREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds TERREBONNE FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THIBODAUX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ARANSAS PASS FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LAFOURCHE ARC ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds b1 Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WAR HEROES ↗
- Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
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 · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · J B Levert Foundation · Danos Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Saints & Pelicans Foundation (FKA Saints and Pelicans Gulf Coast Renewal) · The Gray Foundation · The Zeringue 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 Tbs Spark 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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