Louisiana · Private foundation
Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $97M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $592k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 46 | $3.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $2.6M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $3.6M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $2.8M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $863k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $602k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Bernard Parish Government | $6,503,363 | 8 | n/a |
| Glassroots | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Center of St Bernard | $619,800 | 8 | 52% |
| Nunez Community College Foundation | $605,918 | 8 | 8% |
| New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Foundation | $389,910 | 7 | 6% |
| Lsu Foundation | $345,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Bernard Economic Development Foundat | $268,947 | 7 | 19% |
| Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota | $255,709 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Family Violence Program of St Bernard | $203,680 | 6 | 9% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Goldring Family Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Northshore Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · The Gpoa Foundation
How this is measured
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About Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc reported 47 grants totaling $3,086,632 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (40%), Education (13%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Bernard Parish Government ($6.5M), Glassroots ($2.0M), Community Center of St Bernard ($620k).
- Does Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, United Way of Southeast Louisiana.
- Where is Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc is based in LA.
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