· Private foundation
The Biedenharn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSSIER PARISH SCHOOLS | $60,000 |
| BULL BUTEAU FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KELLY MCGIMSEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| GINGERBREAD HOUSE | $20,000 |
| PET SAVERS | $10,000 |
| SOUTH HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILENO BAY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FB CHURCH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CADA | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +45%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +6%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- JCJEWEL CHARITYone grant, 2019 · $28k
- JCJEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%
- NLNORTHWEST LA COMMUNITY DEV CORPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +866%
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.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
We believe the children and their families in our care deserve the chance to heal by being valued in a safe environment by competent, caring professionals. camp oakland is a private, nonprofit treatment agency that serves at-risk children…
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…
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest La Community Dev Corp and the most unlike its peers is Wtl Ministries. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 83 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 THE BULL BUTEAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Send56 Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KELLY MCGIMSEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PET SAVERS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LA COMMUNITY DEV CORP ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WTL Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RENESTING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Wheless Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · American Electric Power Foundation · Poindexter Foundation Inc · Anita Mary Tippings Steinau Foundat · The Crow Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Attaway Foundation · J B Atkins 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 The Biedenharn 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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