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The Charles Lamar Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Education$1.7MAnimals$993kYouth Development$946kArts & Culture$823kEnvironment$506kHealth$476kHuman Services$253kPublic Benefit$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $652k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $866k
$20,780
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAT HAVEN$200,000
COMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE$156,250
BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION$100,000
KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$100,000
GREAT HEARTS HARVESTON$100,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA GREATER BATON ROUGE$60,000
BISSEL PET FOUNDATION$50,000
FATHERS ON A MISSION$50,000
CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER$50,000
LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES$47,781
FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC$40,000
THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM$40,000
LINE 4 LINE$30,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF LOUISIANA$30,000
ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA$29,250
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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF TURKANA INC: $59k → 20%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME & SERVICES: $5k → 10%GAITWAY THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $3k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%FATHERS ON A MISSION: $50k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $40k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $40k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $25k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $25k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $10k → 19%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
DC
LA
AL
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Charles Lamar Family 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, 90% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Charles Lamar Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 44 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
38

Total granted

$5.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+2%

Still filing today

70%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BR
    Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $643k · revenue +156%
  • LK
    LOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $460k · revenue +189%
  • CA
    COMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $456k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • FY
    FRONT YARD BIKES
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -23% · 34% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULFgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue +39%
  • BR
    BATON ROUGE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -32%

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
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
3
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
4
For Providers by Providers Louisiana

Provides quality training for early education providers

Education
5
For a Better Bayou

To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.

Environment
6
Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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7
Baton Rouge Primary Care Collaborative Inc

To provide high quality comprehensive health care services for the under-served population of east baton rouge parish and the surrounding areas regardless of ability to pay.

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8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Swla Inc

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.

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9
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
10
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.

Crime & Legal
11
Louisiana Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc

Louisiana appleseed solves our state's toughest problems at their root cause by advocating for access to justice, opportunity, and education. we believe that our state will be stronger through fair and equitable access to the courts, the…

Human Services
12
Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center

To offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide, homicide and violence.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%36%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%60%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/77
the rest of the field
17%
3,575/20,932

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.

05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 101 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
42/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATURE CONSERVANCY OF LOUISIANA — $286,500 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF LOUISIANACHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER — $200,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERSTAND FOR CHILDREN LOUISIANA — $170,000 · OtherSTAND FOR CHILDREN LOUISIANACARE USA — $120,000 · OtherTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM — $140,000 · OtherFRONT YARD BIKES — $250,000 · OtherFRONT YARD BIKESALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA — $142,500 · Other+56 more — $1,730,042 · Other+56 moreLOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY — $460,000 · EducationLOUISIANA KEY ACA…NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE — $400,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR B…Nola Nature School Corporation — $75,000 · EducationNola Nature Schoo…MANNERS OF THE HEART INC — $70,400 · EducationMANNERS OF THE HE…+4 more — $95,000 · Education+4 moreCOMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE — $456,250 · AnimalsCOMPANION ANIM…CAT HAVEN INC — $240,000 · AnimalsCAT HAVEN INCFriends of the Animals BR Inc — $70,000 · AnimalsFriends of the…THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $35,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $35,000 · Animals+4 more — $62,500 · Animals+4 moreLOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES — $185,332 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA E…Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc — $140,260 · Arts & CultureArts Counci…LOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUMINC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA A…LINE 4 LINE — $98,000 · Arts & CultureLINE 4 LINETHE WALLS PROJECT — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLS P…DOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC — $43,750 · Arts & CultureDOUGLAS MAN…PALACIOS HOUSE OF ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Arts Education Project — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $31,780 · Arts & CultureBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $642,500 · Youth DevelopmentBaton Rouge…I AM Empowering The Next Generation — $25,500 · Youth DevelopmentBATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE EMERGE CENTER INC — $146,502 · PhilanthropyBALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $105,000 · PhilanthropyBISSELL Pet Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyKNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $122,000 · EnvironmentTHE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF — $119,703 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FOUNDATION — $24,500 · EnvironmentCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA — $22,540 · Environment
Other$3,039,042Education$1,100,400Animals$898,750Arts & Culture$729,122Youth Development$703,000Philanthropy$301,502Environment$288,743

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 budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc — $642,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetLOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY — $460,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE — $456,250 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE — $400,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFRONT YARD BIKES — $250,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCAT HAVEN INC — $240,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetLOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES — $185,332 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE EMERGE CENTER INC — $146,502 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA — $142,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc — $140,260 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM — $140,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetKNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $122,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUMINC — $120,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF — $119,703 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBALDWIN FAMILY VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLINE 4 LINE — $98,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBATON ROUGE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK — $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNola Nature School Corporation — $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetEmpower Mali — $72,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMANNERS OF THE HEART INC — $70,400 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetFriends of the Animals BR Inc — $70,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT — $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFriends of Turkana Inc CO MR JAMES LAUGHLIN — $59,144 over 1y, 67% of budgetFOAM Fathers on a Mission — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHREE SPRINGS COMMUNITY FARM FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC — $43,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOF MOVING COLORS PRODUCTIONS — $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Resource Center for Educators — $35,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE — $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMWANZO — $28,304 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetI AM Empowering The Next Generation — $25,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBAYSIDE ACADEMY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDog People of Livingston — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPALACIOS HOUSE OF ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSan Francisco Arts Education Project — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOUISIANA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER BATON ROUGE INC — $22,550 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA — $22,540 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

The Huey & Angelina W…Baton Rouge Area Foun…The Credit Bureau of …Albemarle FoundationThe Merice Boo Johnst…Capital Area United W…Irene W & Cb Penningt…Pennington Family Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…Rotary Club of Baton …Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Foundation for Louisi…
The Huey & Angelina Wilson FoundationLA67.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana

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 Charles Lamar Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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How do I get to The Charles Lamar Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Charles Lamar Family 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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home