How much did THE EJ AND MARJORY B OURSO FAMILY grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE EJ AND MARJORY B OURSO FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

womenlkadyslexiapromotingheartrenovationsincrease

2019

studentsalzheimer'sclassesridinglpcfknocklearning

2020

agnes catholiccatholic churchreachschedule

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k13 grants · $64k
$10k–50k14 grants · $200k
$50k–250k1 grant · $125k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$125,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC$25,000
ASCENSION OF OUR LORD CATHOLIC CHURCH$25,000
SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARY$25,000
ASCENSION CATH DIOC REG SCHOOL$15,375
ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL$15,000
ST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$10,000
MEANINGFUL AUTISTIC RES FOR KIDS$10,000
ST JOSEPH ABBEY & SEMINARY COLLAGE$10,000
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND$10,000
ST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS OF NEW ORLEANS$10,000
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER$10,000
ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–20, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

67%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

NW
NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM
5× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +13%
TH
THE HEART GIFT FOUNDATION FOR A LOUISIANA CHILD
6× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +237%
MF
MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +30%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY
2× · 2017–2024 · $25k
AO
ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART
one grant, 2018 · $25k
TB
THRIVE BATON ROUGEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +51%

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.

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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Children's Bureau of New Orleans

Children's bureau of new orleans promotes growth and resilience through prevention, advocacy, education and intervention. our mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families in greater new orleans through valid and…

Human Services

Luke's House- a Clinic for Healing and

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.

Health

Center for Resilience

The center for resilience (cfr) collaborates with the medical mental health, and (cont'd on sch. o) education communities to provide clinically sound, academically effective, and culturally sustaining schooling and care in a diversity of…

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Little Lighthouse Central Mississippi

To glorify god by improving the quality of life for children with special needs.

Education

Louisiana Children's Research

Everyone is empowered through literacy.

Human Services

New Schools for Baton Rouge

New schools for baton rouge's mission is to transform schools citywide to ensure there is an excellent school for every child in our city.

Education

A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

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Baton Rouge Primary Care Collaborative

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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Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Center

Baton rouge children's advocacy center serves abused children and their non-offending family members. services include forensic interviews, therapy services, and a family advocacy support program.

Youth Development

Dreams Come True of Louisiana Inc

Dreams come true was founded for the sole purpose of providing dreams to children with life-threatening illnesses.

Health

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 Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/72

the rest of the field

17%

1,020/6,083

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

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

30/43

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$846,045Health$186,665Education$126,803Arts & Culture$80,000Human Services$48,725Community Improvement$47,000Philanthropy$15,000

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.

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.

Baton Rouge Area FoundationLA65.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Credit Bureau Of · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby · Shell USA Company Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · William Edwin Montan Charitable Trust · Irene W and C B Pennington 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 organisation THE EJ AND MARJORY B OURSO FAMILY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEANINGFUL AUTISTIC RES FOR KIDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823287859 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MEANINGFUL AUTISTIC RES FOR KIDS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family?

Find your warmest path to The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE EJ AND MARJORY B OURSO FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family?

More from the funding graph

THE EJ AND MARJORY B OURSO FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family?

More from the funding graph