Louisiana · 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.
- $52k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $897k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Sample Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $52k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $34k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $36k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $38k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $34k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $34k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $33k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $32k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo Council on Aging | $16,575 | 8 | 0% |
| Shreveport Garden Study Club | $11,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Robinsons Rescue Inc | $8,381 | 6 | 0% |
| The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Generals Redoubt | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fisheries Conservation Foundation Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation Inc | $3,499 | 1 | 3% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $3,288 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo Council on Aging | $16,575 | 8 | 0% |
| Shreveport Garden Study Club | $11,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Robinsons Rescue Inc | $8,381 | 6 | 0% |
| The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Generals Redoubt | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc | $5,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fisheries Conservation Foundation Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation Inc | $3,499 | 1 | 3% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $3,288 | 2 | 0% |
| Shreveport Regional Arts Council | $2,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Cruz Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Port City Cat Rescue | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Northwest Louisiana | $2,250 | 2 | 0% |
| American Battlefield Trust | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wideman Piano Competition Inc aka Wideman Piano Competition | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Louisiana Naval War Memorial Commission | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington and Lee University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $150 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sample Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Sample Foundation
- How much does The Sample Foundation give?
- The Sample Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $51,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sample Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are The Sample Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Caddo Council on Aging ($17k), Shreveport Garden Study Club ($12k), Robinsons Rescue Inc ($8k).
- Does The Sample Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sample Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sample Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, H E Storer Charitable Foundation, Wheless Foundation.
- Where is The Sample Foundation based?
- The Sample Foundation is based in LA.
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