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Current Funding Opportunities:

Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Greater New Orleans Foundation
Community Foundation of Acadiana
The Rapides Foundation
Pennington Family Foundation
Community Foundation of North Louisiana
Baptist Community Ministries

Government Offices:

Governor John Bel Edwards – (225)342-7015

Senator John Kennedy – (202) 224-4623, Washington DC

Senator Bill Cassidy, MD – (202) 224-5824, Washington DC

Louisiana State Homepage

Other Resources:

Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Louisiana Municipal Association

Community Development Division of Administration

Jefferson Parish Department of Community Development

Louisiana Assistance Resource Center (LARC)

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Louisiana Initiative for Nonprofit and Community Collaboration (LINCC)

Community Development Works (a program of The Rapides Foundation)

Louisiana Decentralized Arts Fund Program

Louisiana eGrants

The Data Center

Center for Planning Excellence

LSU Office of Research & Economic Development

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana

Urban League of Louisiana

Southeastern Council of Foundations – The Southeastern Council of Foundations is a membership association of more than 360 grantmakers working together to strengthen, promote and increase philanthropy in 11 Southeastern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia). SECF itself does not make grants.

Top Foundations:

FOUNDATION NAME TOTAL ANNUAL GIVING 
Entergy Charitable Foundation$51,158,685 
Baton Rouge Area Foundation$39,998,920 
The Greater New Orleans Foundation$26,550,003 
Community Foundation of Acadiana$16,724,719 
Rapides Foundation$13,380,634 
William C. Woolf Foundation$10,319,198 
Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation$7,781,748 
The Community Foundation of North Louisiana$6,544,170 
Baptist Community Ministries$6,264,503 
Goldring Family Foundation$4,821,035 
CenturyLink-Clarke M. Williams Charitable Foundation$4,275,079 
Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation$4,234,150 
Edward G. Schlieder Educational Foundation$3,454,167 
The RosaMary Foundation$2,694,000 
Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation$2,485,465 
Northshore Community Foundation$2,464,146 
Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana$2,399,544 
Booth-Bricker Fund$2,036,611 
Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation$1,469,833 
Ella West Freeman Foundation$1,437,518 
Central Louisiana Community Foundation$1,271,925 
Carolyn W. and Charles T. Beaird Foundation$1,127,219 
Lorio Foundation$1,101,679 
Frazier Foundation, Inc.$955,360 
Stuller Family Foundation$931,992 
Institute of Mental Hygiene$879,118 
The Almar Foundation$803,480 
Keller Family Foundation$777,369 
Fred B. and Ruth B. Zigler Foundation$707,396 
Coughlin-Saunders Foundation, Inc.$643,221 
The Lupin Foundation$611,000 
J. Edgar Monroe Foundation$559,252 
German Protestant Orphan Asylum Association Foundation$541,900 
The Wheless Foundation$480,000 
Christus Schumpert Foundation$412,368 
Foundation for Louisiana$296,822 
Boh Foundation$276,216 
The Turner Foundation$223,000 
Mary Family Foundation$102,595 
The Donum Dei Foundation$0

Community Foundations:

FOUNDATION NAME GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS 
Baton Rouge Area FoundationAscension, LA; East and West Baton Rouge, LA; East and West Feliciana, LA; Iberville, LA; Livingston, LA; Pointe Coupee, LA: 
Central Louisiana Community FoundationAllen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Evangeline, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, Vernon, Winn parishes, LA. 
Community Foundation of AcadianaThe parishes of Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Mary, St. Martin and Vermilion, LA 
Community Foundation of Southwest LouisianaAllen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis parishes, LA 
Foundation for the Mid SouthArkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi 
Northshore Community FoundationSt. Helena; St. Tammany; Tangipahoa, and Washington Parishes, LA 
The Community Foundation of North LouisianaCaddo and Bossier Parishes, LA 
The Greater New Orleans FoundationAssumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St, Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington parishes, LA; National