Louisiana · Private foundation
The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $481k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $481k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $557k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $505k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $618k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $586k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $664k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $523k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $910k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Schools for Baton Rouge | $600,000 | 6 | 7% |
| City Year Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gardere Community Christian School | $187,500 | 5 | 4% |
| General Health System Foundation | $175,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Emerge Center Inc | $164,173 | 7 | 4% |
| The Hospice Foundation of Greater Baton Rouge | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heritage Ranch | $105,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Bayou District Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Services of the Capital Area | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation with peer funders
About The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation
- How much does The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation give?
- The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $480,781 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (20%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Schools for Baton Rouge ($600k), City Year Inc ($400k), Gardere Community Christian School ($188k).
- Does The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation.
- Where is The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation based?
- The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation is based in LA.
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