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Fine Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH$61,030
NOTRE DAME SEMINARY$26,000
ST THERESE ACADEMY$25,000
ST MARY'S DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW ORLEANS$12,500
ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS$12,500
ARCHBISHOP SHAW HIGH SCHOOL$11,200
COVENANT HOUSE$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
ST MARY'S RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
SISTER SERVANTS OF MARY$10,000
BRIDGE HOUSE$10,000
ST MICHAEL'S SPECIAL SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: $3k → 23%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $3k → 23%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $3k → 23%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $3k → 23%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $3k → 23%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$562k · 21 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
13

Total granted

$562k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+64%

Still filing today

29%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +0%
  • BH
    BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +31%
  • MS
    MORNING STAR RISING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S TRAINING ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services
2
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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3
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
4
Louisiana United Methodist Children & Family Services Inc

The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…

Human Services
5
Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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7
Covenant House Texas

Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.

Human Services
8
Covenant House Michigan

Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…

Human Services
9
Marthas House of Hope Inc

Martha's House of Hope is a non-profit organization, founded by Roman Catholic individuals committed to providing shelter, life skills and hope to pregnant mothers and their babies; to strive for lives of self-reliance, a sense of service…

Health
10
House of Mercy
Human Services
11
Our Ladys Inn

Care of unhoused pregnant women and their children.

Human Services
12
Eden Garden Orphanage

Eden Garden Orphanage cares for orphans in and from the country of Haiti, preventing the otherwise likely outcome of an early death due to malnutrition or disease and /or a life of prostitution or crime.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge House Corporation; the most unlike its peers is St Therese Academy. 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

14 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. 14 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHBISHOP SHAW HIGH SCHOOL: $116,200 · OtherARCHBISHOP SHAW HIGH SCHOOLST JOHN INTERPAROCHIAL SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherST JOHN INTERPAROCHIAL SCHOOLST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $61,030 · OtherST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $38,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESNOTRE DAME SEMINARY OF NEW ORLEANS: $36,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME SEMINARY OF NEW ORLEANSST MARYS DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL: $30,800 · OtherSt Therese Academy: $30,000 · OtherSISTER SERVANTS OF MARY: $24,000 · OtherRUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL: $24,000 · OtherST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL: $21,000 · Other+19 more: $108,840 · Other+19 moreCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $31,000 · Human ServicesMORNING STAR RISING: $12,500 · Human ServicesLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Religious Education: $20,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $6,000 · EducationBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $22,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHOTEL HOPE: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterOZANAM INN: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$600,370Human Services$47,000Education$26,000Health$23,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Philanthropy$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds St Therese Academy ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Religious Education ↗
  • Who funds MORNING STAR RISING ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOTEL HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds OZANAM INN ↗

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 Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Baptist Community Min…The Vincent Saia Foun…The Greater New Orlea…The Whitman Family Fo…James P Raymond Jr Fo…Lauricella Land Compa…Goldring Family Found…Salmen Family Foundat…Salutare Deum Foundat…Ronnie & Gwen Briggs …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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