· Private foundation
The Sample Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARK'S CATHEDRAL | $15,000 |
| SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB | $11,700 |
| ST MARK'S RECOTR'S FUND | $10,000 |
| SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL | $2,800 |
| CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING | $2,000 |
| WIDEMAN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION INC | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF NW LOUISIANA | $1,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICAN NORTH LA | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $1,000 |
| WERLA - WILDLIFE REHABEDUCATION OF LA | $1,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $1,000 |
| DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST | $1,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $1,000 |
| PORT CITY CAT RESCUE | $1,000 |
| THE GENERALS REDOUBT | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CCCADDO COUNCIL ON AGING8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +77%
- RRROBINSONS RESCUE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +47%
- TDTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- RLROSS LYNN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +16%
- USUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -15%
- FBFOOD BANK OF NWLAone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.
The baton rouge blues foundation is a non-profit organization striving to promote, preserve and celebrate the baton rouge blues culture and bring the best of louisiana swamp blues music to the world.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
The red skelton museum was formed for the collection,preservation of the materials and personal items of red skelton, the entertainer along with the educational history of mr. skelton. events and fundraisers along with a gift shop provide…
Operation of museums and parks dedicated to nature on behalf of the City of New Orleans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northwest Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Fisheries Conservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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 CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds ROBINSONS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE GENERALS REDOUBT ↗
- Who funds Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERIES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS LYNN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Port City Cat Rescue ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Wideman Piano Competition Inc aka Wideman Piano Competition ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
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 North Louisiana · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · Wheless Foundation · The Crow Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sample 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.
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.