· Private foundation
Fenner French Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS INC | $500 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $200 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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…
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…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 45 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 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 METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Raphael Village ↗
- Who funds TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Ochsner Health System ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fenner French Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fenner French Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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