· Private foundation
Noel Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $401k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION | $117,680 |
| LOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY CADDO CAMPUS | $69,235 |
| RED RIVER STEM INC | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $54,500 |
| THE ARC CADDO BOSSIER | $50,000 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA | $50,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| SHREVEPORT OPERA | $32,500 |
| HIGHLAND CENTER CORP | $30,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH LA | $30,000 |
| FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| NOEL COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAM | $22,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +53% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +53%
- FPFILM PRIZE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +116%
- SRSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL4× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- SRSTEAMED RICE INC FKA SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue +211%
- BRBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NWLAone grant, 2021 · $30k
- LBLIFESHARE BLOOD CENTERone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -3%
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 sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
Shreveport chamber of commerce provides various projects thoughout the year for chamber members.
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
The mission of the shreveport symphony, inc. is to provide classical music to northwest louisiana communities.the symphony offers diverse programs representing the community it serves in a series of 8 subscription concerts and 4 chamber…
Assistance in economic development.
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.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
The bossier arts council is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and providing cultural events and programming in order to enhance the quality of life and to develope a cultural identity for bossier parish.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge fosters the creative capacity and vibrancy of the capital region through advocacy, resources, and education.
The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Renzi Education & Art Center 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLAND CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER STEM INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds STEAMED RICE INC FKA SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOEL COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RENZI EDUCATION & ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOSSIER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COHABITAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · J B Atkins Foundation · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · The Nelson Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · American Electric Power Foundation · Zadeck Family Foundation · First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc
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 Noel Foundation Inc 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.
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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