About Baptist Community Ministries
Baptist Community Ministries concentrates its giving on local Baptist-led health and emergency response efforts in the New Orleans area. The foundation provides large, unrestricted/core operating support to a single anchor grantee focused on community health, and it also makes targeted emergency relief grants to Baptist associations after disasters like Hurricane Ida. Its funding reflects a clear faith-based, place-based commitment to sustaining primary care access and disaster recovery through Baptist institutions.
Focus Areas
Baptist-affiliated community health clinics in New OrleansHurricane and disaster relief through local Baptist associationsCore operating support for faith-based service providers
Who They Fund
young children and families (including infants/first 1,000 days)K–12 students, including economically vulnerable youthstudents with significant disabilities / special education populationsyouth experiencing homelessness and at-risk adolescentsformerly incarcerated / people reentering society
About Baptist Community Ministries
Baptist Community Ministries’ largest recent grants are concentrated in one place: New Orleans-based Baptist Community Health Services received $1,000,000 in each of 2023, 2024, and 2025 for core funding. That repeated support shows how the foundation uses substantial, ongoing grants to sustain a local institution rather than spreading dollars widely. A second long-running relationship appears with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, which received $400,000 in core funding in each of those same three years, plus a $300,000 hurricane-disaster grant in 2023. The pattern points to a funder that backs Baptist-linked organizations over time, with a clear preference for general operating support and emergency response when local needs spike. Recent awards also show that the foundation connects faith-based institutions to community health, education, and recovery work through organizations rooted in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Its giving is tightly tied to Baptist-led service providers and community systems, especially where those groups serve as anchor institutions for health, disaster relief, and neighborhood support.
What Baptist Community Ministries Funds
In community health, Baptist Community Ministries gave $1,000,000 in 2025 to Baptist Community Health Services for core funding, and it also awarded $247,774 to Administrators for the Tulane Educational Fund for behavioral health. Early childhood education is another visible area: Agenda for Children received $697,500 in 2025 for New Orleans early childhood education strategic work, following a $534,500 grant in 2024 for the same purpose. The foundation also supports early care and education through the Policy Institute for the Children of Louisiana, which received $220,000 in 2023 for early care and education and $180,000 in 2025 for Geaux Far Louisiana: Unified and Accessible Early Childhood Education Strategic. On the public-safety and reentry side, The First 72 received $150,000 in 2025 for core funding, and Innocence Project New Orleans received $150,000 in 2024 for the Louisiana Law Enforcement Accountability Database.
How Baptist Community Ministries Gives
Typical grant sizes run from $2,000 at the 25th percentile to $7,750 at the median, with the 75th percentile at $50,000. The recent grant list also shows a much higher upper tier through repeated seven-figure and six-figure awards. The pattern is strongly recurring rather than one-off: several recipients appear in multiple years, including Baptist Community Health Services, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Thrive New Orleans, Crossroads Nola, New Orleans Baptist Ministries Inc, and The First 72. Baptist Community Ministries is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it makes grants as well as funding individuals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$11M
Total Assets
$397.5M
Total Revenue
$17.7M
Total Expenses
$18.2M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $2K and $50K, with a median of $8K.
25th Percentile
$2K
Median
$8K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
Local14 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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