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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAINTREE SERVICES | $10,430 |
| MD ANDERSON | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| SEMPER FI AND AMERICA'S FUND | $6,570 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $4,000 |
| METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION | $3,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ST FRANCIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $3,200 |
| NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,175 |
| TAKE PAWS RESCUE | $3,100 |
| WOODBURY FOREST SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| K-9 WARRIORS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
69 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +21%
- TLTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +42%
- RSRAINTREE SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MPMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +24%
- BUBROOKE USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +99%
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.
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.
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wounded War Heroes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 80 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAINTREE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis Animal Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WOODHALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TAKE PAWS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WAR HEROES ↗
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: 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
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 Downman 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Horse Farms Forever Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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