· Private foundation
The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE MERICE BOO JOHNSTON GRIGSBY 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISITIAN SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| BATON ROUGE GENERAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ST LILLIAN'S ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| LA LAW ENFORCEMENT & CRIMINAL JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - LOUISIANA | $25,000 |
| LAUNCH THERAPY CENTER | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA | $20,000 |
| THE EMERGE CENTER | $18,281 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER BR | $16,000 |
| HOSPICE OF BATON ROUGE | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALALSAC | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE BR SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB | $10,000 |
| ISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $10,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION - LAMS CHAPTER | $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 (FY17–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +16% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE6× · 2017–2022 · $600k · revenue ×12
CITY YEAR INC4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +15%- GCGARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL5× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- BRBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +132%
- TCTHRIVE CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $75k
- BRBATON ROUGE GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $30k
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 brain institute of louisiana is a private, non-profit research institute with a primary focus on enhancing brain science in louisiana.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.
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.
We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.
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…
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…
Arc of Greater New Orleans is committed to securing for all people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to develop, function, and live to their fullest potential
BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.
Provides quality training for early education providers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for Baton Rouge and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Recovery House. 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.
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 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 127 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 NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE RANCH ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds ST LILLIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BIG BUDDY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG RIVER ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
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: The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 organization The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby 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.