Louisiana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC
FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,636,522 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ochsner Health Systemlocalportfolio match
- New Schools for New Orleans Incshared funders
- Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
20% of FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $43k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 46% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
63% of FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ochsner Health Systemlocalportfolio matchLA · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for New Orleans Incshared fundersLA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ackerman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christus Health Northern Louisianaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woman's Hospital Foundation D/B/A Woman's Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zuschlag Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stuller Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleansshared funderslocalLA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 14 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc · exempt
- Discovery Ochsner Baton Rouge · exempt
- Friends of Discovery Ochsner Baton Rouge · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC?
- FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,636,522 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,636,522 in grants to FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing