· Public charity
The Rapides Foundation
The mission of THE RAPIDES FOUNDATION (trf) is to improve the health status of central louisiana.
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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+13 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY20–24, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k 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
- CECMAP EXPRESS7× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +3% · 94% of their budget
- CLCENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +87% · 77% of their budget
- ICIBERIA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER4× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CCCAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANAone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -41% · 42% of their budget
- CLCENTRAL LOUISIANA AHECone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- OMOUTPATIENT MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone 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.
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 improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
The Louisiana Primary Care Association, Inc. works to promote community based health services through advocacy, education, public awareness and leveraging resources.
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.
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…
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.
To provide quality, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally appropriate primary and preventive healthcare services to residents in medically underserved North Louisiana.
To alleviate immediate suffering caused by poverty and to stop the cycle of poverty to make Rapides Parish citizens self-sufficient.
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,…
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.
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…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
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,…
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 Reinvesting in Simmesport Expansion. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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 59 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 ORCHARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CMAP EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds IBERIA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LASALLE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE BEN JOHNSON EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUTPATIENT MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AT EUNICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Access Health Louisiana ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Mental Health Association ↗
- Who funds CAMPTI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
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: Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc · Keep Louisiana Beautiful Foundationinc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Louisiana Public Health Institute · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · United Way of Central Louisiana Inc · Direct Relief · Save The Children Federation Inc · Share Our Strength · Shell USA Company Foundation · 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 organization 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.
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
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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