· Private foundation
Clifford F Spanier Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS | $2,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CRESCENT CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN | $1,000 |
| CLOVER | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LOUISIANA SPCA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $1,000 |
| CAFE RECONCILE | $1,000 |
| CAJUN NAVY RELIEF | $1,000 |
| COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +0%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +21%
- HIHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS8× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HFHUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY LOUISIANAone grant, 2023 · $500
- CPCITY PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $500
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 mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…
The entity was established to advocate for reform of the national flood insurance program in order to develop responsible floodplain management within coastal and riverine communities.
The mission of south la wetlands discovery center is to revolutionize the way we think, teach, and learn about louisianas disappearing coast. we are currently raising funds to further our mission.
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
Saints & pelicans foundation promotes fund raising to help restore louisiana's fragile wetlands, which have been severely damaged by major hurricanes and the bp plc oil spill.
Operation of museums and parks dedicated to nature on behalf of the City of New Orleans.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Voice of the Wetlands A Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC CHRISTIAN BROTHERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Greater New Orleans ↗
- Who funds CAFE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · The Gpoa Foundation · Gulf Coast B&T Foundation · Ruth U Fertel Foundation · The Azby Fund · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family 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 Clifford F Spanier 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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