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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $307k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $100,000 |
| PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE | $35,000 |
| JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA | $30,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| URJ HENRY S JACOBS CAMP | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $25,000 |
| CITY PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AT TULANE | $20,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS | $15,000 |
| CHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF LOUISIANA | $12,000 |
| ST BERNARD PROJECT | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 5% 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +81%
- FOFRIENDS OF CITY PARK5× · 2018–2022 · $103k · revenue +50%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE7× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AT TULANEone grant, 2018 · $16k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2019 · $15k
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +31%
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 Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
The mission of the new orleans jewish community center is to promote and insure the well being of our jewish community and to instill an understanding of judaism and its heritage by providing a center where all can enjoy, experience and…
Youthforce nola fuels a movement that equips young people to graduate high school on a path to career success.
Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…
The jewish endowment foundation of louisiana (jef), chartered in 1967, ensures a secure future and an enduring legacy by serving as an essential resource for jewish and non-jewish philanthropy.
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
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…
New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…
Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 66 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER NEW ORLEANS SECTION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Teaching Responsible Earth Education TREE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELLA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ 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: 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
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 Cahn Family Foundation 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.
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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