· Private foundation
Erik F Johnsen Family 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| THE GORDIE CENTER | $1,000 |
| RHODES COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $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 (FY20–20, $30) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONEW ORLEANS OPERA5× · 2020–2024 · $190k
- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH2× · 2020–2022 · $160k
- NWNATIONAL WWII MUSEUM3× · 2020–2022 · $22k
Funded once
- TLThe Louisiana Museum Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +31%
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $30k
- TCTRINITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…
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.
Lphi leads and partners with communities to ensure that everyone has fair and just opportunities to be healthy and well.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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.
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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 · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fenner French Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Erik F Johnsen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erik F Johnsen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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