· Private foundation
The Rucks Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $344k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $250,000 |
| ST MARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH | $100,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA | $50,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $50,000 |
| FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY | $37,500 |
| COMMUNITY OF JESUS CRUCIFIED - PRIEST BROTHER AND SISTER SERVANTS | $35,000 |
| JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER | $30,000 |
| WITNESS TO LOVE | $30,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS | $25,000 |
| LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION | $21,500 |
| LOURDES FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| THE REFINERY MISSION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +91% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +60%
- JPJOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +137%
Mercy Ships International8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +303%
Funded once
- WCWILLIAM C SCHUMACHER FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -89%
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $130k · revenue +98%
- SJST JOSEPH HARDSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
Inspired by the vision of st. francis and in the tradition of the roman catholic church, we extend the healing ministry of jesus christ to god's people, especially those most in need. we call forth all who serve in this healthcare…
To provide for the care of the ill, injured, or disabled persons and to provide for research, education, and the enhancement of those in the community.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The hospital's purpose is to provide care for the ill, injured, or disabled persons & to provide for research, education, & the enhancement of health of those in southeast louisiana.
See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item
The mission of AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION (ADF) is to impact the culture of life by being a champion for adoption as an alternative to abortion or single parenting for women in crisis.
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
To improve the quality of life for people affected by organ and tissue donation and transplantation. to transform our community by eliminating the waiting list for organ and tissue transplants.
Parent company for acute care hospital - the mission of saint francis healthcare system is to provide a ministry of healing, wellness, quality and love inspired by our faith in jesus christ.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…
University is a 4 year private catholic institution, offering degrees in nursing, health/behavioral sciences, & humanities. the college is an integral part of the fmol health system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lourdes Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phase Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 69 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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM C SCHUMACHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of the Lake Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lourdes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REFINERY MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Desormeaux Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds METANOIA INC ↗
- Who funds Witness To Love Marriage Prep Renewal Ministry ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans For Child Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP ME SEE INC ↗
- Who funds Faith House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA ↗
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 Acadiana · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Pinhook Foundation Inc · Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation · Zuschlag Family Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Stuller Family Foundation · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Foundation for Wellness Fna Womans Foundation Inc · Billy & Clara Mosing 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 Rucks Family 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.