· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of ARLENE & JOSEPH MERAUX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $735k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLASSROOTS | $2,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $202,000 |
| ST BERNARD SCHOOL BOARD | $144,169 |
| WYES-TV - GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATION TELEVISION FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST BERNARD | $94,100 |
| GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS | $65,533 |
| HAMLINE UNIVERSITY | $54,464 |
| NOCCA INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $41,919 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $40,000 |
| CASA NEW ORLEANS | $33,333 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| NUNEZ COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $21,915 |
| CHALMETTE HIGH SCHOOL | $18,450 |
| ST BERNARD COUNCIL ON AGING | $16,899 |
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 (FY17–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
77 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 4 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- CCCommunity Center of St Bernard8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +240% · 52% of their budget
- NCNunez Community College Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $606k · revenue +152%
- SBSt Bernard Economic Development Foundat7× · 2017–2023 · $269k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $345k · revenue +87%
- SBST BERNARD PARISH DEPT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2023 · $80k
- NMNOLA MURAL PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…
#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
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.
The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Iberia Development Foundation. 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 126 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 GLASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds Community Center of St Bernard ↗
- Who funds Nunez Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Bernard Economic Development Foundat ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PROGRAM OF ST BERNARD ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CASA - NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ISLENOS HERITAGE AND CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NOLA Tree Project ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD AUTISM AWARENESS KREWE ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Greater New Orleans ↗
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: 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
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 Arlene & Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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