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Aimee Favrot & Michael Bell Family Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CHARLES AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,550 |
| WWIII MUSEUM | $2,634 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $1,465 |
| COVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,220 |
| LA CHILDRESN MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| MANRESA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART | $891 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $784 |
| WYES | $612 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CABILDO | $355 |
| JR LEAGUE OF NEW ORLEANS | $270 |
| AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE | $209 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $203) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +44%
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE CABILDO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +21%
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LCLA CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $19k
- AIAUDUBON INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $2k
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
To further the interest in the history of pharmacology and promote its further development for the benefit of the general public.
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CABILDO INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RIVA-LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONUMENTAL TASK COMMITTEE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Thomas B Favrot Jr Family Fund · Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Sybil M & D Blair Favrot Family Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Aimee Favrot & Michael Bell Family Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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