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Willis-Knighton Medical Center

To continuously improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$9.5MHealth$2.8MCrime & Legal$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$960kRecreation & Sports$513kHousing & Shelter$495kCommunity Improvement$495kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $2,993,328, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,102,423 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $109,095 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $691k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $444k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN FOUNDATION$1,424,700
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC$400,000
SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY$124,000
YMCA OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA$105,000
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$80,000
PROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC$75,000
HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC$60,000
INDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION$44,500
SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER RESCUE MISSION$41,987
THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER$40,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$39,116
FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$34,500
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK$30,000
SHREVEPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT$27,000
BOSSIER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$26,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOUISIANA HERO'S PROJECT: $22k → 19%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $65k → 22%LOUISIANA HERO'S PROJECT: $22k → 19%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $60k → 22%LOUISIANA HERO'S PROJECT: $15k → 19%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $60k → 22%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $60k → 22%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $60k → 22%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $60k → 22%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $55k → 22%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY INC: $55k → 22%NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $9k → 13%NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $7k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $37k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $30k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $25k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $25k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $25k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $25k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $25k → 22%INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH: $25k → 22%YMCA OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $105k → 22%YMCA: $46k → 22%YMCA: $41k → 22%YMCA: $41k → 22%THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $40k → 22%YMCA: $40k → 22%YMCA: $37k → 22%ARC OF CADDO-BOSSIER: $30k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 50 repeat orgs$725k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
9

Total granted

$18M
$544k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+4%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NF
    NSU FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +40%
  • VF
    VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +163%
  • LH
    LSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SM
    SPRINGHILL MEDICAL SERVICES INC DBA SPRINGHILL MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • CP
    CADDO PARISH SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $122k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA STATE EXHIBIT MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -78%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health
2
Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…

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3
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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4
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association Foundation Inc

The foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of lake charles memorial hospital, working to support and enhance the hospital's mission of providing compassionate care, community service and cutting-edge technology for the people of…

Health
6
The Louisiana Superintendents Academy Co James Meza

Mission of the louisiana superintendent's academy is to respond to the need for strong leadership in louisiana school districts by creating a selective and rigorous professional learning experience to increase the pool of qualified…

Education
7
Louisiana State Medical Society

The society's exempt purpose is to extend medical knowledge, advance medical science, elevate the standards of medical education and training, enforce just medical laws and regulations, promote dialogue and cooperation among physicians and…

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8
Southwest Louisiana Alliance Foundation Inc

Attract new business to southwest louisiana.

Community Improvement
9
Lsu School of Medicine New Orleans Medical Alumni Association Inc

To act as a fundraising arm, in an agency relationship for the lsu health sciences center.

Education
10
Lsu Health Sciences Building Foundation in Shreveport

All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.

Education
11
Beauregard Health System Foundation Inc

To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.

Health
12
Louisiana Nurses Foundation

To improve the quality of health care in louisiana by the promotion, improvement, and protection of professional nursing through education, advocacy, communication, and professional integrity. to collect and distribute monies for specific…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc Caddo-Bossier; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 69 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NSU FOUNDATION INC: $5,657,100 · EducationNSU FOUNDATION INCLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $538,368 · EducationLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC+5 more: $337,500 · EducationCADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $3,027,523 · OtherCADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARDVOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE: $1,280,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICESHREVEPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $375,150 · OtherSHREVEPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCEShreveport Bossier Rescue Mission: $372,702 · OtherShreveport Bossier Rescue Mission+28 more: $1,407,632 · Other+28 moreRonald McDonald House Global: $442,961 · HealthRonald McDon…DESOTO REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $315,075 · HealthDESOTO REGIO…SPRINGHILL MEDICAL SERVICES INC DBA SPRINGHILL MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 · HealthSPRINGHILL M…Desoto Hospital Association Inc DBA Desoto Regional Health System: $284,916 · HealthDesoto Hospi…MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY: $181,500 · HealthMARTIN LUTHE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · HealthCADDO-BOSSIER CANCER FOUNDATION LEAGUE INC: $95,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $69,116 · Health+5 more: $164,500 · Health+5 moreSHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC: $719,542 · Arts & CultureFoundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting: $170,500 · Arts & CultureSHREVEPORT OPERA: $102,750 · Arts & CultureLITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $52,200 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $475,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $309,700 · Human ServicesTHE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH INC: $217,184 · Human ServicesTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $70,000 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA HEROES PROJECT: $58,472 · Human Services+2 more: $28,092 · Human ServicesLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT: $584,150 · PhilanthropyINDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC: $293,500 · Recreation & SportsCADDO-BOSSIER SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $155,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$6,532,968Other$6,463,007Health$1,953,068Arts & Culture$1,174,992Human Services$1,158,448Philanthropy$584,150Recreation & Sports$448,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNSU FOUNDATION INC: $5,657,100 over 8y, 22% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE: $1,280,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetSHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC: $719,542 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT: $584,150 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $538,368 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $475,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $442,961 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHREVEPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $375,150 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetShreveport Bossier Rescue Mission: $372,702 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetDESOTO REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $315,075 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $309,700 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSPRINGHILL MEDICAL SERVICES INC DBA SPRINGHILL MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINDEPENDENCE BOWL FOUNDATION INC: $293,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetDesoto Hospital Association Inc DBA Desoto Regional Health System: $284,916 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH INC: $217,184 over 8y, 18% of budgetLouisiana Trooper Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 62% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY: $181,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $170,702 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting: $170,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCADDO-BOSSIER SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $155,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetBOSSIER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $117,710 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE: $115,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSHREVEPORT OPERA: $102,750 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND ARTHRITIS: $99,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetCADDO-BOSSIER CANCER FOUNDATION LEAGUE INC: $95,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetPROVIDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT: $70,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $69,116 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA HEROES PROJECT: $58,472 over 3y, 45% of budgetCOUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ABUSE OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $52,200 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA STATE EXHIBIT MUSEUM INC: $35,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLouisiana High School Athletic Association: $34,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $33,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSHREVEPORT LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $28,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetRed River Film Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA: $24,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetNEW CARDIOVASCULAR HORIZONS: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215: $19,741 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTE: $16,255 over 2y, 14% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Powers Foundation…Grayson Foundation IncBlue Cross & Blue Shi…American Electric Pow…Carolyn W & Charles T…Wheless FoundationThe Alta and John Fra…United Way of Northwe…The Nelson FoundationThe Crow FoundationJ B Atkins Foundation
Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA76.2× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Willis-Knighton Medical Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willis-Knighton Medical Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Willis-Knighton Medical Center?

    Find your warmest path to Willis-Knighton Medical Center through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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