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The Powers Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND CENTER CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $30,000 |
| LA TECH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| EDIFY | $10,000 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LA KEY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| THE ARC CADDO - BOSSIER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ABUSE OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $5,000 |
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, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- THTHE HIGHLAND CENTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue ×19
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +6%
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALone grant, 2017 · $25k
- YOYMCA of Northwest Louisianagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +90%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +109%
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
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.
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
To promote architecture.
Shreveport chamber of commerce provides various projects thoughout the year for chamber members.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Assistance in economic development.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
To provide education to the people of southwest louisiana about hiv/aids, hiv prevention, and to offer medical and social services to people living with hiv.
The dual mission of southwest louisiana law center is to provide first rate legal services to the unemployed and economically disadvantaged residents of southwest louisiana and to utilize the organization's legal capabilities for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 34 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 92 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 THE HIGHLAND CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Northwest Louisiana ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds NORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215 ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY ↗
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 · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Nelson Foundation · Zadeck Family Foundation · Noel Foundation Inc · J B Atkins Foundation · The Crow Foundation · Wheless 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 Powers 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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