Mayor's Healthy City Initiative
Baton Rouge, LA · EIN 27-2515190. Reported 49 grants totalling $2,956,531 to 30 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Mayor's Healthy City Initiative, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 17% 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. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $37,500. Half of what it reported fell between $11,250 and $90,000; the smallest was $5,140 and the largest $277,521. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Walls Project | Baton Rouge, LA | $513,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Agile Planning | Baton Rouge, LA | $484,971 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Top Box Foods | Chicago, IL | $395,960 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Glen Oaks High School Security Dads | Baton Rouge, LA | $307,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $164,485 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Buddy Program | Baton Rouge, LA | $133,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Young Mens Christian Association of the Capital Area | Baton Rouge, LA | $103,875 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ceo Mind Org | Baton Rouge, LA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Scotlandville Community Development Corporation | Baton Rouge, LA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southern University System Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baton Rouge North Edd | Baton Rouge, LA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Louisiana Center for Health Equity | Baton Rouge, LA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living Faith Christian Center 329 Atkinson St | Baton Rouge, LA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baker Eddcc | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Front Yard Bikes | Baton Rouge, LA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Abounding Love Ministres | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Road of Greater Baton Rouge Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Move Your Feet Inc | Baker, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Blvd Macedonia Church | Baton Rouge, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Scotland Saturdays | Baton Rouge, LA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| A Kingdom Connection Changing Lives | Baton Rouge, LA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Cafe | Baton Rouge, LA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parenting on Purpose | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Perfectly Suited | Jonesboro, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Enterprises LLC | Ashburn, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Be the Blessings Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Staub Foundation | Fairplay, MD | $5,140 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
11 of 30 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Agile Planning
INCREASE ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOODS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 30 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 | 4 | $451,460 | $105,730 |
| 2021 | 22 | $1,252,185 | $22,500 |
| 2022 | 14 | $956,271 | $47,500 |
| 2023 | 8 | $291,475 | $24,500 |
| 2024 | 1 | $5,140 | $5,140 |
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
78% 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 $37,500 -- 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 Mayor's Healthy City Initiative's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2041 Silverside Dr, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808.
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