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Current Funding Opportunities:

Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Greater New Orleans Foundation
The Rapides Foundation
Pennington Family Foundation
Community Foundation of North Louisiana
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation (Louisiana Blue Foundation)
Carolyn W. and Charles T. Beaird Family Foundation
Central Louisiana Community Foundation – Opportunity Grants
The Ella West Freeman Foundation
Entergy Charitable Foundation
German Protestant Orphan Asylum Association (GPOA) Foundation
Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation
The RosaMary Foundation

Government Offices:

Governor – (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 Alliance for Nonprofits

Louisiana Municipal Association

Office of Community Development – LCDBG Program (Division of Administration) – HUD-funded Community Development Block Grants for local governments in non-entitlement areas (nonprofits cannot apply directly).

Jefferson Parish Department of Community Development

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Community Development Works (a program of The Rapides Foundation)

Louisiana Project Grants (formerly Decentralized Arts Funding) – Project grants of $2,500 to $7,500 for community arts projects, run through nine regional arts councils.

The Data Center

Center for Planning Excellence

LSU Office of Research & Economic Development

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana

Urban League of Louisiana

Philanthropy Southeast – Formerly the Southeastern Council of Foundations, Philanthropy Southeast is a membership network of grantmakers working together to strengthen, promote and increase philanthropy across the American South. It does not make grants itself.

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