How much did THE RAPIDES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE RAPIDES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

prevent tobaccotobacco quittingquitting eatingeating increasedincreased physicalphysical activitycare early

2019

comprehensive coordinatedcoordinated entrepreneurshipentrepreneurship cenlaprevent tobaccotobacco quittingeating increasedincreased physical

2020

givealcohol preventioncomprehensive coordinatedcoordinated entrepreneurshipentrepreneurship cenlaexpansionquitting

2021

integrated behavioralbehavioral assessmentassessment planningplaygroundwalking trackparkequipment

2022

increasingnursingbringefficiencyaccelarationquantitygrowth

2023

ece engagementbehavior districtreconnectdistrict partnershipoutreachdistrict partershipexpansion

2024

early childhoodcmapbehavior districtreadinessdistrict partnershipdistrict partershipstrengthening

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $211k
$50k–250k20 grants · $2.4M
$250k+13 grants · $14M

$120,336

Median grant

States reached

$363M

Total assets

Largest grants

RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$5,343,750
NATCHITOCHES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$3,103,165
LOUISIANA CENTRAL$1,000,000
LOUISIANA CENTRAL$760,000
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION$587,100
CMAP EXPRESS$574,942
CMAP EXPRESS$569,355
RAPIDES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$441,273
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION$388,710
GRANT PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$338,963
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL LA$292,543
THE ORCHARD FOUNDATION$284,600
CMAP EXPRESS$254,968
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA$242,593
VERNON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$225,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 14%. 52% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$88M · 35 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +82% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$88M

$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%

+82%

Still filing today

37%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

CE
CMAP EXPRESS
7× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +3% · 94% of their budget
LC
LOUISIANA CENTRAL
5× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +87% · 77% of their budget
IC
IBERIA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
4× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +80%

Funded once

CC
CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA
one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -6% · 42% of their budget
CL
CENTRAL LOUISIANA AHEC
one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
OM
OUTPATIENT MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $385k · revenue +110%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in comformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Southwest Louisiana Area Health

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health

Louisiana Primary Care Association Inc

The Louisiana Primary Care Association, Inc. works to promote community based health services through advocacy, education, public awareness and leveraging resources.

Health

Christus Health Southwestern Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Baton Rouge Primary Care Collaborative

To provide high quality comprehensive health care services for the under-served population of east baton rouge parish and the surrounding areas regardless of ability to pay.

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Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…

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Ochsner Lsu Health System of North

To provide hospital and medical care to the residents of shreveport and monroe, louisiana, and their surrounding communities through the ownership and operation of three safety-net hospitals.

Health

Cenla Community Action Committee Inc

To alleviate immediate suffering caused by poverty and to stop the cycle of poverty to make Rapides Parish citizens self-sufficient.

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Louisiana Cancer Research Center

To develop a coordinated cancer research and educational program that will optimize discovery and development of innovative cancer therapies; lead to innovative clinial treatment programs offering new opportunities for early detection,…

Health

West Louisiana Health Services Inc

To provide medical are and health programs by operating a 49 bed facility and 4 Rural Health Clinics (RHC) for Hospital Service District 2 of Beauregard Parish and 5 physician clinics; recruit and employ physicians in HPSA.

Health

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

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Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation

Promote and develop economic opportunity to those in need of increased ecomonic opportunity; to promote the education and welfare of the people of the community; and to form special interest groups as it deems necessary to solve special…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Christian University. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/59

the rest of the field

15%

584/3,969

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

18/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$48,219,471Education$25,492,934Health$12,448,990Public Safety & Disaster$7,057,850Human Services$666,530Community Improvement$125,000Youth Development$75,000

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.

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.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield OfLA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · United Way of Central Louisiana Inc · Keep Louisiana Beautiful Inc · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Direct Relief · Louisiana Public Health Institute · United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc · Christus Health · Save The Children Federation Inc · Share Our Strength · Enterprise Holdings 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 organisation THE RAPIDES 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CMAP EXPRESS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 020751416 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CMAP EXPRESS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rapides Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rapides Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE RAPIDES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rapides Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE RAPIDES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rapides Foundation?

More from the funding graph