· Public charity
The Rapides Foundation
The mission of THE RAPIDES FOUNDATION (trf) is to improve the health status of central louisiana.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
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
How this is measured
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 +47%
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 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,…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rapides Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rapides Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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