Sharon and Claude B Pennington
Baton Rouge, LA · EIN 81-5336145. Reported 48 grants totalling $3,138,212 to 46 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. Sharon and Claude B Pennington 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 $4,054. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $800 and the largest $1,279,437. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Cajun Navy | Baton Rouge, LA | $1,279,437 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office | Port Allen, LA | $618,030 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office | Baton Rouge, LA | $338,638 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Baton Rouge District Attorney | Baton Rouge, LA | $260,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Zion Baptist Church II | Plaquemine, LA | $122,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| LSU Police Department | Baton Rouge, LA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iberville Christian Center | St Gabriel, LA | $69,345 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Plaquemine Police Dept | Plaquemine, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Emerge Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 18TH Judicial Dist Attorneys Ofc | Plaquemine, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John School | Plaquemine, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St James Episcopal Day School | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capital Renaissance Intl School | Baton Rouge, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Companion Animal Alliance | Baton Rouge, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University Laboratory School | Baton Rouge, LA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge General Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Woman's | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bella Bowman Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John the Baptist Church | White Castle, LA | $6,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capital Region Crime Stoppers | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Douglas Manship Theatre | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iris Domestic Violence Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Knock Knock Children's Museum | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Lady of the Lake Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Found | Natchitoches, LA | $3,109 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Refuge Ministries | White Castle, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Envision Youth Group | Sunshine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Higher Grounds Intl Worship Ctr | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Community Outreach Ministries | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Outreach for Christ Corp | White Castle, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Zion Inner City | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mt Cyrene Baptist Church | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church 1 | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Mt Olive Baptist Church | Grosse Tete, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Point Pleasant Baptist Church | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Luke Family Christian Center | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| True Hope Missionary Baptist | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Are the Difference | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Word of Truth New Life Center | Bayou Goula, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zion Field Evangelistic Ministries | Plaquemine, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baton Rouge Epicurean Society | Baton Rouge, LA | $2,950 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Claw Up Boosters | Shreveport, LA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $1,932 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Tx MD Anderson Cancer | Houston, TX | $971 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Broc Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $800 | 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.
- Mount Zion Baptist Church II
COMMUNITY OUTREACH INITIATIVE - Iberville Christian Center
MOTORS COURSE/SWAT EQUIPMENT - The Emerge Center
GALA PRESENTING SPONSORSHIP 2024 - St John School
ART PROGRAM: PHASE I, II, AND III - St James Episcopal Day School
THE ERAS SOIREE: PRESENTING SPONSOR - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
CAP CITY FINEST/SLEIGH CYSTIC FIBROS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 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
100% 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 $4,054. 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 Sharon and Claude B Pennington's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 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: 7349 Bocage Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA, 70809. 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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