How much did THE MERICE BOO JOHNSTON GRIGSBY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE MERICE BOO JOHNSTON GRIGSBY’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

educational

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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

03FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $67k
$10k–50k19 grants · $290k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

HOSPICE OF BATON ROUGE$100,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - LOUISIANA$100,000
THE EMERGE CENTER$25,060
HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE$25,000
BATON ROUGE GENERAL FOUNDATION$25,000
LAUNCH THERAPY CENTER$25,000
ST LILLIAN'S ACADEMY$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA$20,000
OLOL CHILDREN'S HEALTH CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER AT MCMAINS$15,000
CAPITAL AREA AUTISM NETWORK$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALALSAC$15,000
ALS ASSOCIATION - LAMS CHAPTER$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$10,000
ST MICHAEL'S HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$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 (FY17–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.8M · 60 repeat orgs$807k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$688k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+90%

Still filing today

45%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

GC
GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
4× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +72%
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THE EMERGE CENTER
5× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +286%
AS
ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA
4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +27%

Funded once

BR
BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +188%
CY
CITY YEAR BATON ROUGE
one grant, 2020 · $100k
TC
THRIVE CHARTER SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $75k

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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Louisiana Children's Research

Everyone is empowered through literacy.

Human Services

Future Athletes of Louisiana

Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…

Recreation & Sports

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 Alliance for Nonprofits

Louisiana alliance for nonprofits is a statewide organization that advocates for the nonprofit community and strengthens the effectiveness of those committed to improving louisiana.

Philanthropy

Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual

Work toward ending sexual violence through education, program support, and social change

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For Providers by Providers Louisiana

Provides quality training for early education providers

Education

Louisiana Industries for the Disabled

To assist persons with disabilities and/or those who are disadvantaged to achieve independence and self-sufficiency.

Employment

Louisiana Cancer Research Center

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

The Louisiana Superintendents Academy

Mission of the louisiana superintendent's academy is to respond to the need for strong leadership in louisiana school districts by creating a selective and rigorous professional learning experience to increase the pool of qualified…

Education

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

A Stronger Louisiana

To educate the public on public policies that affect the state of louisiana.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/66

the rest of the field

16%

607/3,707

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

60 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)

56/60

Grantees still filing

40/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,874,699Education$879,669Youth Development$273,000Health$170,723Human Services$162,100Philanthropy$153,392Housing & Shelter$59,250

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 FoundationLA70.2× affinity32 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 · Capital Area United Way · Albemarle Foundation · The Credit Bureau Of · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Irene W and C B Pennington Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family · Shell USA Company Foundation · New Schools for Baton Rouge · Inner Wheel of Baton Rouge

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 MERICE BOO JOHNSTON GRIGSBY 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: CAPITAL AREA AUTISM NETWORK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862583905 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 CAPITAL AREA AUTISM NETWORK, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby?

Find your warmest path to The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby 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 MERICE BOO JOHNSTON GRIGSBY

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

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby?

More from the funding graph

THE MERICE BOO JOHNSTON GRIGSBY

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

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby?

More from the funding graph