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Fenner French Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| CRESCENT CITY CARNIVAL MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| LOUSIANA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| NEWMAN SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| ONCE UPON A ROOM | $1,500 |
| RAPHAEL VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE | $800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS INC | $500 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $200 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PBPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +57%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND4× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +57%
- ANAudubon Nature Institute Inc2× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TLThe Louisiana Museum Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +31%
- LVLONG VUE GARDENSone grant, 2021 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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…
To provide a nurturing environment, which facilitates maximum student achievement through a rigorous, accelerated academic program incorporating visual, cultural and creative arts, which will ultimately enhance each student's ability to…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
Provide undergraduate and graduate education in a variety of programs to approximately 600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
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.
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touro Infirmary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Raphael Village. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 45 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 PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Students For Fair Admissions Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS TOWN GARDENERS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Raphael Village ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Ochsner Health System ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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 Usdin-Weil Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Zemurray Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · 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 Fenner French 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.
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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