· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $1,000 |
| PORT CITY CAT RESCUE | $1,000 |
| WIDEMAN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION INC | $1,000 |
| THE GENERALS REDOUBT | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Port City Cat Rescue ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds Wideman Piano Competition Inc aka Wideman Piano Competition ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA NAVAL WAR MEMORIAL COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sample Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sample Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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