· Public charity
William C Schumacher Family Foundation
To support the charitable mission of community foundation of acadiana by distributing funds to other charitable organizations or spending resources to build stronger communities through collaboration and community engagement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $496k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR SAVIOR'S CHURCH | $1,000,000 |
| LOVE OUR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $646,288 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA | $251,664 |
| OUR LADY OF WISDOM CATHOLIC CHURCH | $101,000 |
| PARISH PROUD | $100,000 |
| MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ACADIANA | $95,134 |
| SCHOOL CONNECT | $50,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC | $50,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC | $25,000 |
| MERCY CARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WOMEN OF WISDOM OF ACADIANA | $12,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA | $10,987 |
| ST TERESA CENTER FOR WORKS OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of William C Schumacher Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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
- EDEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC4× · 2019–2024 · $596k · revenue +204%
- SCSCHOOL CONNECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $465k · revenue +21% · 53% of their budget
- PLPROUD LOUISIANA LLC3× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +0% · 86% of their budget
Funded once
- TBTHE BAYOU CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $250k
- CKCAPTURING KIDS HEARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -83%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $177k · revenue +38%
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.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
The purpose of Impact Acadiana is to fundraise for different charities throughout the Acadiana Region as well as the State of Louisiana to help support the causes of Veteran's Affairs/Cancer & Research/School Athletic Programs etc..
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
The organization's mission is to preserve, restore and expand downtown lafayette, louisiana as a business and cultural center.
The organization's primary exempt purpose was the enhancement of pediatric care.
Public access television
To financially assist public schools, mainly in louisiana, in meeting financial needs related to the education of children.
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miles Perret Cancer Services and the most unlike its peers is Houston Responds. 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 25 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 23% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 64 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 Community Foundation of Acadiana ↗
- Who funds LOVE OUR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Responds ↗
- Who funds PROUD LOUISIANA LLC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Acadiana Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTURING KIDS HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE HARVEST ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DOTLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Women of Wisdom of Avadiana Inc ↗
- Who funds CAJUN RELIEF FOUNDATION INC GAUDET ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHARLES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA INC PASA ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AAROGYASEVA GLOBAL HEALTH VOLUNTEER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA FAMILY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CURRENT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Outreach Center Inc ↗
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 · Zuschlag Family Foundation · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Love Our Schools · Pinhook Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · Stuller Family Foundation · Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · The Rucks Family Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana 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 William C Schumacher 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.
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.
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