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Fine Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$61,030
Organizations funded a year
8 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Fine Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$258k35%
FY202413$136k15%
FY202314$37k14%
FY202211$77k0%
FY202121$106k52%
FY202014$57k21%
FY20198$23k63%
FY201811$15kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$393kReligion$159kHuman Services$53kHealth$38kYouth Development$36kHousing & Shelter$14kFood & Nutrition$10kCivil Rights$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Notre Dame Seminary of New Orleans$36,0006n/a
Covenant House New Orleans$31,00080%
St Marys Dominican High School$30,8004n/a
St Therese Academy$30,00042%
Bridge House Corporation$22,00070%
St Michael Special School$21,0007n/a
Friends of Religious Education$20,00045%
Morning Star Rising$12,50050%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$10,00010%
Xavier University of Louisiana$6,00020%
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All grantees of Fine Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Notre Dame Seminary of New Orleans$36,0006n/a
Covenant House New Orleans$31,00080%
St Marys Dominican High School$30,8004n/a
St Therese Academy$30,00042%
Bridge House Corporation$22,00070%
St Michael Special School$21,0007n/a
Friends of Religious Education$20,00045%
Morning Star Rising$12,50050%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$10,00010%
Xavier University of Louisiana$6,00020%
Hope Ignites New Orleans$4,50050%
Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc$2,50010%
Hotel Hope$2,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
Maggie's Place Inc$1,00010%
Ozanam Inn$1,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$25010%

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($478k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fine Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCovenant House New Orleans: $31,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSt Therese Academy: $30,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBridge House Corporation: $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Religious Education: $20,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetMorning Star Rising: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXavier University of Louisiana: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Ignites New Orleans: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHotel Hope: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaggie's Place Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOzanam Inn: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

J Edgar Monroe FoundationLA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Vincent Saia Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Whitman Family Foundation · James P Raymond Jr Foundation · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Salmen Family Foundation · Salutare Deum Foundation · Ronnie & Gwen Briggs Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Fine Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fine Family 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.

About Fine Family Foundation

How much does Fine Family Foundation give?
Fine Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $258,230 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fine Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Religion (22%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Fine Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Notre Dame Seminary of New Orleans ($36k), Covenant House New Orleans ($31k), St Marys Dominican High School ($31k).
Does Fine Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fine Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fine Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Edgar Monroe Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries.
Where is Fine Family Foundation based?
Fine Family Foundation is based in LA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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