· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +79%
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.
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…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 80 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Downman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Downman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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