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The Louisiana Open Inc

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$221k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

Education$278kRecreation & Sports$147kArts & Culture$32kAnimals$24kYouth Development$22kCommunity Improvement$11kCrime & Legal$7kHuman Services$6k
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $135,219, the rows itemized in this filing. The $220,949 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,730 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
$9,770
Median grant
1
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL$39,010
ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL$22,059
CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY$18,910
CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER$16,510
LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHWRESTLING$9,770
NEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH$8,970
NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL$8,800
BROUSARD KNIGHT COLUMBUS$6,000
ACADIANA HIGH SCH PARENT CLUB$5,190
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $19k → 17%ACADIANA HIGH SCH PARENT CLUB: $5k → 17%NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 21%NEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH BAND: $14k → 23%KPA: $12k → 17%NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 21%NEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH BAND: $11k → 23%KPA: $12k → 17%NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 21%NEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH: $11k → 23%ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL BAND: $11k → 17%NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 21%NEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH BAND: $10k → 23%LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHWRESTLING: $10k → 17%NORTH VERMILLION HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 21%NEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH: $9k → 23%ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL BAND: $9k → 17%ABBEVILLE ALLSTAR: $6k → 21%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $6k → 23%ACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL BAND: $7k → 17%IMPACT ACADIANA: $14k → 21%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $6k → 23%KINESIOLOGY PROFESSIONAL ASSN: $6k → 17%IMPACT ACADIANA: $12k → 21%ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL: $22k → 17%CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER: $21k → 17%CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER: $17k → 17%CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER: $16k → 17%CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER: $14k → 17%CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER: $14k → 17%ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL: $13k → 17%ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL ATHL: $13k → 17%ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 17%JUDICE MIDDLE SCHOOL: $9k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF LA FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%TEURLINGS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO: $7k → 17%TEURLINGS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO: $6k → 17%TEURLINGS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO: $6k → 17%TEURLINGS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO: $6k → 17%CARENCRO MIDDLE JR BETA: $8k → 17%SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $39k → 17%SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$438k · 12 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +235% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$438k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+235%
+35%

Still filing today

17%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CY
    CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $82k
  • FI
    FORKED ISLAND E BROUSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $59k
  • ST
    ST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $59k

Funded once

  • JM
    JUDICE MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • CM
    CARENCRO MIDDLE JR BETA
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • UO
    UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +129%
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
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER: $81,720 · OtherCHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATERFORKED ISLAND E BROUSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $59,260 · OtherFORKED ISLAND E BROUSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $59,139 · OtherST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC SCHOOLSOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $44,770 · OtherSOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLDELCAMBRE HIGH SCHOOL: $33,850 · OtherDELCAMBRE HIGH SCHOOLTeurlings Catholic High School: $26,070 · OtherTeurlings Catholic High SchoolKPA: $24,520 · OtherNEW IBERIA SENIOR HIGH BAND: $21,410 · OtherACADIANA HIGH SCHOOL BAND: $19,600 · OtherCHI OMEGA FRATERNITY: $18,910 · OtherBROUSSARD KC 7557: $17,200 · Other+8 more: $55,530 · Other+8 moreImpact Acadiana: $26,000 · EducationUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $7,860 · EducationCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $24,000 · Arts & CultureHEARTS OF HOPE: $6,526 · Crime & Legal
Other$461,979Education$33,860Arts & Culture$24,000Crime & Legal$6,526

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImpact Acadiana: $26,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $24,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $7,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS OF HOPE: $6,526 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKREWE OF TRITON INC: $5,260 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Impact Acadiana ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds KREWE OF TRITON INC ↗

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.

Love Our SchoolsCommunity Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…Amazonsmile Foundation
Love Our SchoolsLA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Love Our Schools · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Louisiana Open Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louisiana Open Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Louisiana Open Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Louisiana Open Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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