Skip to content

· Private foundation

Chadwick Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$318kEducation$45kReligion$32kArts & Culture$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kCivil Rights$15kSocial Science$13kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$258k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE UNIVERSITY$5,000
FEDERALIST SOCIETY$4,000
MISES INSTITUTE$3,000
LE PETIT SALON DU VIEUX CARRE$2,000
NATL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN LA$1,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$1,000
NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL ON AGING$1,000
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$1,000
JUDICAL WATCH$1,000
MEMORIAL HALL MUSEUM FOUNDATION$1,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNCATION: $1k → 14%JUDICAL WATCH: $1k → 14%MISES INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%RHODES COLLEGE: $5k → 17%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1k → 21%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%MCINTIRE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $1k → 9%WASHINGTON LEE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION: $300k → 22%MEMORIAL HALL MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1k → 23%JUDICAL WATCH: $1k → 14%MISES INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1k → 21%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $1k → 9%MEMORIAL HALL MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1k → 23%FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $4k → 14%FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $3k → 14%FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $2k → 14%ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH: $5k → 15%ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH: $5k → 15%ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATIO: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATIO: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%LE PETIT SALON DU VIEUX CARRE: $2k → 23%JESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES: $4k → 23%JESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES: $4k → 23%JESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES: $4k → 23%JESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES: $4k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS SE CHAPTER LA: $2k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS SE CHAPTER LA: $2k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS SE CHAPTER LA: $2k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS SE CHAPTER LA: $2k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS SE CHAPTER LA: $2k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS SE CHAPTER LA: $2k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 34 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$180k
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+29%

Still filing today

59%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +72%
  • JP
    JESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES
    4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +282%
  • TF
    THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • LH
    LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • RC
    Rhodes College
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • HB
    HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNCATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Loyola University

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
9
Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

—
10
Centenary College of Louisiana

Provide undergraduate and graduate education in a variety of programs to approximately 600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

—
11
New York Law School

The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skills and ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherLSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT FOUNDATIONTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $15,000 · OtherST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH: $15,000 · Other+22 more: $70,500 · Other+22 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $17,500 · EducationTHE ADMIN…University of New Orleans Foundation: $11,000 · EducationUniversit…Rhodes College: $5,000 · EducationRhodes Co…THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $2,000 · EducationLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationJESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES: $15,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 · ReligionAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $2,000 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,500 · Public BenefitTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$400,500Education$42,500Religion$23,000Health$13,500Public Benefit$6,500Arts & Culture$4,000Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES: $15,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetNew College Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds JESUS PROJECT MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
  • Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Rhodes College ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗

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.

Baptist Community MinistriesLA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chadwick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chadwick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chadwick Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chadwick Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Chadwick Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph