Louisiana · Public charity
Willis-Knighton Medical Center
To continuously improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,424,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.1B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Willis-Knighton Medical Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $3.0M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $5.2M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.7M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.5M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.9M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.7M | 21% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nsu Foundation Inc | $5,657,100 | 8 | 22% |
| Caddo Parish School Board | $3,027,523 | 3 | n/a |
| Volunteers for Youth Justice | $1,280,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Shreveport Symphony Inc | $719,542 | 8 | 9% |
| Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in Shreveport | $584,150 | 7 | 2% |
| Louisiana Tech University Foundation Inc | $538,368 | 7 | 0% |
| Holy Angels Residential Facility I | $475,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $442,961 | 2 | 0% |
| Shreveport Chamber of Commerce | $375,150 | 8 | 7% |
| Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission | $372,702 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 69 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Willis-Knighton Medical Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Wheless Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · The Nelson Foundation · The Crow Foundation · J B Atkins Foundation
How this is measured
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About Willis-Knighton Medical Center
- How much does Willis-Knighton Medical Center give?
- Willis-Knighton Medical Center reported 43 itemized grants totaling $2,993,328, out of $3,102,423 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Willis-Knighton Medical Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (16%), Crime & Legal (8%).
- Who are Willis-Knighton Medical Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nsu Foundation Inc ($5.7M), Caddo Parish School Board ($3.0M), Volunteers for Youth Justice ($1.3M).
- Does Willis-Knighton Medical Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Willis-Knighton Medical Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, The Powers Foundation Inc, Grayson Foundation Inc.
- Where is Willis-Knighton Medical Center based?
- Willis-Knighton Medical Center is based in LA.
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