· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE ARC CADDO - BOSSIER | $10,000 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LA KEY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| EDIFY | $10,000 |
| SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- YOYMCA of Northwest Louisianagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +90%
- SMST MARKS EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALone grant, 2017 · $25k
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +109%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Powers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Powers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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