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Ferber Family of Houma Foundation

Support of various charitable organizations.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$295kReligion$172kHuman Services$60kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$10kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $33,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOURO SYNAGOGUE$25,000
TEMPLE SINAI$8,300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$532k · 9 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$532k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+225%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $250k · revenue +89%
  • TS
    TOURO SYNAGOGUE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $85k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $45k

Funded once

  • HF
    HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +225%
  • SO
    SON OF A SAINT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -16%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -471%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
2
Musical Arts Society of New Orleans

Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…

Arts & Culture
3
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans

The jewish federation of gno's mission is to inspire community members to explore and share their jewish identities through a variety of channels.

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Community Day School of Greater New Orleans

The purpose of this jewish day school is to uphold jewish traditions, religious, charitable, and philanthrophic activities in the jewish community.

Education
5
Loyola University

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…

Education
6
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

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…

Health
7
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the st. louis symphony orchestra (slso) is to enrich lives through the power of music. the slso provides orchestra concerts, community programs, and educational resources for the st. louis community and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Friends of Lubavitch Inc

Orthodox synagogue to promote & understand Judaism and kosher laws & services to the community, ensuring a Jewish tomorrow. Providing educational,

Education
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
New Orleans Friends of Music

New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…

Arts & Culture
11
Jewish Endowment Foundation

The jewish endowment foundation of louisiana (jef), chartered in 1967, ensures a secure future and an enduring legacy by serving as an essential resource for jewish and non-jewish philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra

Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jewish Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Hogs for the Cause Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCETHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTOURO SYNAGOGUE — $85,000 · OtherTOURO SYNAGOGUEJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERTEMPLE SINAI — $42,750 · OtherTEMPLE SINAITEMPLE SINAI — $24,250 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $15,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMCONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER — $15,000 · OtherCONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER+1 more — $5,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropySON OF A SAINT — $10,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$295,000Other$232,000Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE — $250,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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 MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE
  • Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC
  • Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC
  • Who funds SON OF A SAINT
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION

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.

The Usdin-Weil FoundationLA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Kirschman Foundation for Health and Education · Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans · Mintz - Easthope Foundation Linda B Mintz - President · Van Der Linden Family Foundation · Rittenberg Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Jewish Endowment Foundation · The Greater New Orleans 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 Ferber Family of Houma 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ferber Family of Houma Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ferber Family of Houma Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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