Louisiana · Private foundation
Downman 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.
- $124k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,430
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $736k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Downman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 49 | $124k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $129k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $138k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $112k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $105k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $102k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $97k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $92k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $35,705 | 8 | 0% |
| The Louise S McGehee School | $33,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Raintree Services Inc | $32,090 | 5 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc | $24,600 | 8 | 0% |
| St Francis Animal Sanctuary Inc | $22,600 | 8 | 1% |
| New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation Inc | $22,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $19,790 | 5 | 0% |
| The Woodhall School Inc | $15,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Tammany Humane Society D/B/A Northshore Humane Society | $14,825 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Downman 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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Smallpage Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Downman Family Foundation
- How much does Downman Family Foundation give?
- Downman Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $123,720 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Downman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Human Services (12%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Downman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana ($36k), The Louise S McGehee School ($34k), Raintree Services Inc ($32k).
- Does Downman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Downman 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 Downman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries.
- Where is Downman Family Foundation based?
- Downman Family Foundation is based in LA.
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