· Public charity
The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundation
A non-proft organization that operates primarily for religious, charitable, medical, literacy, or educational purposes
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE EJ AND MARJORY B OURSO FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARY | $25,000 |
| SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARY | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC | $25,000 |
| ASCENSION OF OUR LORD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ASCENSION CATH DIOC REG SCHOOL | $15,375 |
| ST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| MEANINGFUL AUTISTIC RES FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS OF NEW ORLEANS | $10,000 |
| ST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +32% since the first grant, against +10% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC5× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +26%
- HFHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +237%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY2× · 2017–2024 · $25k
- AIAMIKIDS INCone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TBThrive Baton Rougeone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -74%
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.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
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.
Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…
To improve the quality of life of children and adults with development disabilites and their families through advocacy services and support
Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.
Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.
Tarc, inc. is a nonprofit corporation which provides opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to realize their full potential, and to become self-directed and contributing citizens.
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.
We are a non-profit school dedicated to teaching bright and talented students in grades k through 12 wtih dyslexia and other learning differences.
To provide the individualized services, information, and support needed to positively enhance the independence, productivity, and integration of persons with disabilities into the community.
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baton Rouge Speech and Hearing Foundation Inc 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 56 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 THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Baton Rouge Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND IN NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLINDON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Thrive Baton Rouge ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds METROMORPHOSIS ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Mental Health Association ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE SPEECH AND HEARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLADEWAVES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEANINGFUL AUTISTIC RESOURCES FOR KIDS MARK ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
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 · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · William Edwin Montan Charitable Trust · Pennington Family Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans
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 Ej and Marjory B Ourso 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.
- 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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