· Private foundation
William Edwin Montan Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATON ROUGE GENERAL FOUNDATION | $65,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE | $53,414 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF GREATER BATON | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA CASA ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER BATON ROUGE | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SERVICES | $20,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| FRANCISCIAN MISSIONARIES OF OUR | $15,000 |
| CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISANA | $15,000 |
| BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION | $13,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $12,500 |
| OLOL CHILDREN'S HEALTH CHILDRENS | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WOMAN'S | $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 (FY20–22, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 15 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; $39k 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
- GHGENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $123k · revenue +73%
- BRBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +62%
- TETHE EMERGE CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $66k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CRCRISTO REY BATON ROUGE HIGHone grant, 2020 · $27k
- TEThe Emerge School for Autism Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +95%
- CACAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +146%
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.
Baton rouge children's advocacy center serves abused children and their non-offending family members. services include forensic interviews, therapy services, and a family advocacy support program.
To offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide, homicide and violence.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Pregnancy counseling
Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.
To improve the quality of life of children and adults with development disabilites and their families through advocacy services and support
To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.
Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Centers in Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 58 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 GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Arc of East Ascension ↗
- Who funds ST LILLIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMANS ↗
- Who funds The Emerge School for Autism Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE RANCH ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION CRIME STOPPERS 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: The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Moyse Family 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 Edwin Montan Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.