How much does The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation give?

The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation reported 50 itemized grants totaling $1,490,264, out of $1,544,264 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (13%).

Who are The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc ($916k), Capital Region Crime Stoppers Inc ($550k), Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc ($511k).

Does The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation, Albemarle Foundation.

Where is The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation based?

The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation is based in LA.

The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation

The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$322k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$1.2MCrime & Legal$843kCommunity Improvement$794kHuman Services$767kHousing & Shelter$438kYouth Development$373kOther$0

02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 50 grants below total $1,490,264, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,544,264 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $12k
$10k–50k42 grants · $869k
$50k–250k5 grants · $287k
$250k+1 grant · $322k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF	$50,000
BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION INC	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.6M · 66 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.6M

$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+20%

Still filing today

92%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

JA
Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $916k · revenue +159% · 30% of their budget
CR
CAPITAL REGION CRIME STOPPERS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +1% · 55% of their budget
GB
GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $511k · revenue +86%

Funded once

TR
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX
one grant, 2021 · $50k
DU
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC
one grant, 2023 · $50k
RO
RAVENS OUTREACH CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -80%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

Louisiana Resource Center for Educators

Louisiana Resource Center for Educators is dedicated to supporting innovation in education for students, teachers, administrators, higher education, and families.

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Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Center Inc

BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.

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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

The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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Louisiana Children's Research Center Development & Learning Inc

We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.

Human Services

For Providers by Providers Louisiana

Provides quality training for early education providers

Education

Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce

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…

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Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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Lsu Research Foundation

Community Improvement

Leaders for a Better Louisiana Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Louisiana Cancer Research Center of Lsuhsc-NOTulane Hsc

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,…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/95

Grantees still filing

58/95

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,006,072Arts & Culture$1,355,470International$915,933Education$885,280Health$838,928Community Improvement$835,930Crime & Legal$552,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baton Rouge Area FoundationLA93.3× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

32report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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