Willis-Knighton Medical Center
Shreveport, LA · EIN 72-0400933. Reported 124 grants totalling $11.5M to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Willis-Knighton Medical Center, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 39% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $12,500 and $39,116; the smallest was $5,075 and the largest $3,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern State University Foundation | Natchitoches, LA | $4,514,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Caddo Parish School Board | Shreveport, LA | $3,010,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Global | Chicago, IL | $442,961 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shreveport Symphony Inc | Shreveport, LA | $396,919 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Volunteers for Youth Justice | Shreveport, LA | $395,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Holy Angels Residential Facility | Shreveport, LA | $230,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Tech University Foundation Inc | Ruston, LA | $219,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Independence Bowl Foundation | Shreveport, LA | $155,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission | Shreveport, LA | $154,247 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Inc | Shreveport, LA | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| YMCA of Northwest Louisiana | Shreveport, LA | $142,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Institute for Global Outreach Inc | Shreveport, LA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Trooper Foundation Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwest Louisiana Food Bank | Shreveport, LA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting | Baton Rouge, LA | $99,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Providence House | Shreveport, LA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Martin Luther King Health Center | Shreveport, LA | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| LSU Health Sciences Foundation in Shreveport | Shreveport, LA | $77,425 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Providence Classical Academy Inc | Bossier City, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bossier Chamber of Commerce | Bossier City, LA | $72,790 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $59,116 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shreveport Fire Department | Shreveport, LA | $58,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Children and Arthritis | Shreveport, LA | $54,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Shreveport Opera | Shreveport, LA | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Key Academy | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Strand Theatre of Shreveport Corporation | Shreveport, LA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Little Theatre of Shreveport | Shreveport, LA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Arc Caddo-Bossier | Shreveport, LA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gingerbread House | Shreveport, LA | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Caddo Bossier Soccer Association | Shreveport, LA | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Shreveport, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Caddo-Bossier Cancer Foundation League Inc | Shreveport, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Red River Film Society Inc | Shreveport, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Taking Aim at Cancer in Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shriner's Hospital for Children | Shreveport, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Shreveport, LA | $19,741 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Louisiana High School Athletic Assn | Baton Rouge, LA | $17,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Centenary College Choir | Shreveport, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Haughton Fire Department | Haughton, LA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwest Louisiana Medical Society | Shreveport, LA | $13,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Red River Radio | Shreveport, LA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ark-La-Tex Agricultural Council | Mansfield, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bayou North Area Health Education Center | Bossier City, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse of Northwest Louisiana | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Junior Achievement of North Louisiana Inc | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crime Stoppers of Shreveport Inc | Shreveport, LA | $7,775 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Human Resources Development Institute | Baton Rouge, LA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oakwood Home for Women Inc | Shreveport, LA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| LSU Shreveport India Studies Special Events | Shreveport, LA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Desoto Regional Health System Foundation | Mansfield, LA | $5,075 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
33 of 55 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission
HEALTH INSURANCE FOR RESCUE MISSION EMPLOYEES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 24 | $1,537,126 | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 26 | $1,714,293 | $23,750 |
| 2022 | 31 | $5,243,402 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 43 | $2,993,328 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Willis-Knighton Medical Center's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 39 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Coleevans Petersonpodrawe, Shreveport, LA, 71166.
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