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Community Foundation of North Louisiana
To strenghthen the community through philanthropy
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 191 grants below total $11,295,230 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,555,322 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $260,092 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $319k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k44 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $745,181 |
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $702,500 |
| CADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARD | $500,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $452,415 |
| THE ADVOCATE | $427,500 |
| THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER | $342,672 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $320,599 |
| HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTICAL FACILITY | $299,684 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE | $274,786 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA | $252,674 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $210,000 |
| FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION | $207,508 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SHREVEPORT | $200,770 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL | $188,144 |
| LSU IN SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION INC | $177,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 5% of Community Foundation of North Louisiana’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, 95% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — 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 +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
219 repeat relationships — 162 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 28 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- HAHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +63%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +6%
- NLNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $560k · revenue +103%
- ZCZITA CHARITABLE NP TRUST XXXXX0155graduatedone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +46%
- OCOAKLAND CEMETERY PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $117k
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 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.
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…
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…
The dual mission of southwest louisiana law center is to provide first rate legal services to the unemployed and economically disadvantaged residents of southwest louisiana and to utilize the organization's legal capabilities for the…
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 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.
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 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…
To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…
-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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu in Shreveport Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Provenance Institute for the Arts Culture and Environment. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
255 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. 255 of the 332 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Northwest Louisiana ↗
- Who funds LSU IN SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH LA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER STEM INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds PRAISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT ↗
- Who funds CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ABUSE OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTH LOUISIANA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEP FORWARD NLA ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE ↗
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: Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · The Powers Foundation Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · The Crow Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · Noel Foundation Inc · The Nelson 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 Community Foundation of North Louisiana 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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