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Martial F Billeaud SR Foundation

Broussard, LA · EIN 58-1695387. Reported 68 grants totalling $159,010 to 36 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$159,010granted, 2021-2024
36recipients, as named on its returns
59%of grantees funded again the next year
$69,046assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Martial F Billeaud SR Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $12,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
17 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Joseph ChurchBroussard, LA$25,000222024
University of Louisiana at LafayettLafayette, LA$22,450442024
City of BroussardBroussard, LA$10,000222024
Miles Perret Cancer ServicesLafayette, LA$10,000442024
Opus Christi MagnumLafayette, LA$10,000222023
St Cecilia SchoolBroussard, LA$9,900442024
Childrens Museum of AcadianaLafayette, LA$8,000222024
Broussard Chamber FoundationBroussard, LA$6,500332024
Cathedral of St John the EvangelisLafayette, LA$5,000112021
Second Harvest Food BankNew Orleans, LA$4,500222022
Acadiana Center for the ArtsLafayette, LA$4,000332024
Broussard Middle SchoolBroussard, LA$4,000442024
Hospice Foundation of AcadiaLafayette, LA$3,800332024
My Brother Rocks SpectrumBroussard, LA$3,550222024
Cathedral of St John the EvangelistLafayette, LA$2,500112024
Gifting Grace ProjectLafayette, LA$2,500112024
Lafayette Museum AssociationLafayette, LA$2,500112022
Parish ProudLafayette, LA$2,500112023
Prime Time Family ReadingNew Orleans, LA$2,500112021
St Anne Catholic ChurchYoungsville, LA$2,000112024
Beaver Club of LafayetteLafayette, LA$1,500332023
Bridge MinistriesLafayette, LA$1,500112022
Carmelite MonasteryLafayette, LA$1,500112021
St Charles Borromero ChurchGrand Coteau, LA$1,500112022
We Rock the Spectrum Kids GymBroussard, LA$1,500112022
Moncus ParkLafayette, LA$1,400332023
Down Syndrome Associate of AcadianaLafayette, LA$1,250442024
Broussard Fire DepartmentBroussard, LA$1,160222024
Faith House IncLafayette, LA$1,000112021
Festival Des Fleur De LouisianaLafayette, LA$1,000112022
Mother Teresa FoundationNew Iberia, LA$1,000112023
Preservation Alliance of LafayetteLafayette, LA$1,000112021
Unexpected Pregancy CenterNew Iberia, LA$1,000112022
232-Help IncLafayette, LA$500112024
232-HELP211Lafayette, LA$500112021
Festival Des Fleurs De LouisianeCarencro, LA$500112024

17 of 36 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 59%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$30,000$1,000
202217$32,050$1,500
202318$48,260$1,750
202418$48,700$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Lafayette, LA
$84K
Broussard, LA
$62K
New Orleans, LA
$7K
New Iberia, LA
$2K
Youngsville, LA
$2K
Grand Coteau, LA
$2K
Carencro, LA
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Community Foundation of Acadiana11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsNetwork for Good3 shared recipientsOur Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Inc3 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Louisiana.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Martial F Billeaud SR Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 106 St Nazaire Rd, Broussard, LA, 70518. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 58-1695387 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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