Pennington Family Foundation
Denham Springs, LA · EIN 81-5300304. Reported 57 grants totalling $1,900,990 to 57 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Pennington Family 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $15,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $450,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennington Biomedical Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Symphony | Baton Rouge, LA | $183,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge General Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $130,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Emerge Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $89,240 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Athletes for Hope | Bethesda, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Vincent De Paul of Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Children's Health Fund | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Knock Knock Children's Museum | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Arts & Science Museum | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Key Academy | Baton Rouge, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make a Wish Louisiana | Metairie, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The National World War II Museum | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Ctr | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic High | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Episcopal School of Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Playmakers of Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Aloysius Catholic School | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Joseph's Academy | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA of the Capital Area | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Entrepreneurs Academy of Br | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Zoo Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Career Compass of Lousiana | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts Louisiana East | Gonzales, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manship Theatre | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response | Baton Rouge, LA | $15,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Child Art Foundation | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services | Hammond, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amikids | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big River Economic and Agricultural | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of LSU Museum of Art | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Therapeutic Horsemanship | St Gabriel, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girls on the Run South Louisiana | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| I Amempowering the Next Generation | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Innocence Project of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Gbr | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kids Orchestra | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Endowment for the Humanities | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisana Ctr for Children's Rights | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| O'brien House | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics Louisiana | Covington, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Life of Single Mom | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Upliftdwcrc | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Gallery | Baton Rouge, LA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Gbr | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Natl Alliance for Eating Disorders | West Palm Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opera Louisiana Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parent Gulf Coast | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Songs of Survivors | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woman's Club Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Books for Boots | Prairieville, LA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Front Yard Bikes | Baton Rouge, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Pennington Biomedical Foundation
THE ANSWER 2025/2024 ANNUAL SUPPORT - Baton Rouge Symphony
PENNINGTON GREAT PERFORMERS - Baton Rouge General Foundation
ARTS IN MEDICINE AT BR GENERAL - Athletes for Hope
STRENGTHENING BR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH - Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc
CLASS OF 2029 SRL/SEL PROGRAMS - Children's Health Fund
OVERCOMING ACCESS BARRIERS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 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.
Where its money goes
92% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,750. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Louisiana.
- 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.
- 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 Pennington Family 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: 13337 Buddy Ellis Road, Denham Springs, LA, 70726. 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.
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