· Private foundation
Clifford F Spanier Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $500
- CPCITY PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +14%
- HFHUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY LOUISIANAone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- 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 FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clifford F Spanier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clifford F Spanier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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