Louisiana · Private foundation
Cahn Family Foundation
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.
- $559k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Cahn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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 | 40 | $459k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $420k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $355k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $346k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $340k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $297k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $235,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Friends of City Park | $103,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience | $96,000 | 7 | 2% |
| St Georges Episcopal School | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Day School of Greater New Orleans | $79,500 | 7 | 1% |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Council of Jewish Women Greater New Orleans Section Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Preservation Hall Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | $46,000 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($802k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cahn Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Goldring Family Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · The Helis Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Zemurray Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cahn Family Foundation
- How much does Cahn Family Foundation give?
- Cahn Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $559,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Cahn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Cahn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jewish Children's Regional Service ($235k), Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc ($190k), Friends of City Park ($103k).
- Does Cahn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cahn Family Foundation 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 Cahn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Goldring Family Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries.
- Where is Cahn Family Foundation based?
- Cahn Family Foundation is based in LA.
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