· Public charity
The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation
THE CREDIT BUREAU OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATION promotes a better understanding of the consumer credit system and personal money management so everyone can achieve greater success in life.
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 50 grants below total $1,490,264 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,544,264 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,000 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $869k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $287k
- $250k+1 grant · $322k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GBRACADIANA | $322,214 |
| DOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX | $67,170 |
| KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $60,000 |
| BATON ROUGE CRIME STOPPERS INC | $60,000 |
| BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION INC | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC - SOUTH LA | $45,000 |
| LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM | $43,320 |
| DREAM TEACHERS LLC | $41,200 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - BATON ROUGE | $38,850 |
| LOUISIANA JUMPSTART COALITION | $36,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE | $32,580 |
| BATON ROUGE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $31,500 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER BATON ROUGE | $30,000 |
| MANNERS OF THE HEART | $27,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- JAJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $916k · revenue +159% · 30% of their budget
- CRCAPITAL REGION CRIME STOPPERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +1% · 55% of their budget
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC7× · 2017–2024 · $511k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- DUDUCKS UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TRTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUXone grant, 2021 · $50k
- LJLOUISIANA JUMPSTART COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
Louisiana Resource Center for Educators is dedicated to supporting innovation in education for students, teachers, administrators, higher education, and families.
BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.
To offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide, homicide and violence.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.
Provides quality training for early education providers
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…
To promote architecture.
To develop and connect leaders and citizens to drive transformative change for a better louisiana. through its work, the organization seeks to transform louisiana into a dynamic, future-ready economy that offers every citizen and business…
To develop a coordinated cancer research and educational program that will optimize discovery and development of innovative cancer therapies; lead to innovative clinial treatment programs offering new opportunities for early detection,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Front Yard Bikes. 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 26 years old; the field is 13. 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 104 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 Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Mental Health Association ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana JumpStart Coalition for Person ↗
- Who funds METROMORPHOSIS ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOR NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of the Lake Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of Arts Council of Greater Denham Springs Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Chesley Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT YARD BIKES ↗
- Who funds BIG BUDDY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LSU 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: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · Rockhold Family Foundation Inc
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 Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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