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Foundation for Louisiana

FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA is the people's foundation. We expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe, (continued on schedule o) stable, connected, and dignified life.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Itemized grants FY2025
99
Organizations funded FY2024
69%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$32,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$175,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 99
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$19M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Foundation for Louisiana funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving38$1.7M45%
FY202499$2.1M69%
FY202362$1.5M40%
FY202255$1.2M47%
FY202157$1.7M47%
FY202033$917k45%
FY201951$1.4M51%
FY201844$1.7M82%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.3MCrime & Legal$3.2MCivil Rights$2.3MEnvironment$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.2MArts & Culture$985kPublic Safety & Disaster$827kEducation$590kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 273 grantees
All grantees of Foundation for Louisiana by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project South Inc$600,549617%
Operation Restoration$396,91772%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$385,00060%
Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans$335,26843%
New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice$280,00062%
Families and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children$255,00086%
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools$249,584412%
Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc$246,85054%
The Promise of Justice Initiative$246,00065%
Women With A Vision$236,75062%
Center for Planning Excellence$229,25075%
HousingNOLA$227,500548%
Peoples Institute For Survival and Beyond$226,09540%
Lede New Orleans Inc$225,000161%
Interfaith Sponsoring Committee (BISCO) Inc$207,00029%
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights$203,50064%
The Water Institute of the Gulf$200,00031%
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana$188,50044%
Voice of the Experienced Vote$186,00042%
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice$175,00012%
Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana$141,00057%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana$140,91432%
Coastal Communities Consulting Inc$127,189318%
Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition$125,667314%
Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund$125,00032%
New Orleans Video Access Center Inc$122,800311%
Our Voice Nuestra Voz$115,000513%
Dancing Grounds$107,50036%
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants$100,000217%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$100,00020%
Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc$100,00019%
Public Allies Inc$98,50050%
Grow Dat Youth Farm$95,00025%
Ravens Outreach Center Inc$95,000114%
Louisiana Parole Project Inc$90,0001n/a
Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans Nonprofit Corporation$87,914627%
Orleans Public Defenders$86,5003n/a
YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge$84,05041%
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc$82,00030%
Earth Island Institute Inc$81,09530%
Efforts of Grace Inc$80,98541%
Invest in Louisiana$80,00021%
United Houma Nation Inc$79,09552%
Metromorphosis$75,39333%
Louisiana Abortion Fund$75,00035%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$75,00010%
Institute for Enhanced Equity$75,00015%
Free Alas$75,00029%
Innocence Project New Orleans$74,50032%
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc$74,000314%
Mid City Redevelopment Alliance$74,00043%
Next Generation International$73,5003n/a
Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy$72,5001n/a
Daughters Beyond Incarceration$70,00035%
Assisi House$70,0002n/a
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$70,00010%
Deep South Center for Environmental$67,18930%
Healthy Gulf$67,00034%
University of New Orleans Foundation$65,6591n/a
Deep South Today$65,00020%
Builders of The Highway Foundation Inc$65,00034%
Court Watch Nola$65,000310%
University of New Orleans$63,8174n/a
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans$62,91427%
Extensive Empowerment Project Inc$57,500145%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$57,18931%
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits$51,000110%
Louisiana Center for Health Equity$50,0001n/a
Arnold Cr$50,000190%
Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$50,00016%
Save The Children Federation Inc$50,00010%
Zion Travelers Cooperative Center Inc$50,0001n/a
Neighborhood Funders Group$50,00020%
New Orleans Youth Alliance$50,00014%
Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Train$50,00018%
Southern University-Baton Rouge$50,0001n/a
University of Louisiana at Lafayette$50,0001n/a
Disability Rights Louisiana$50,00021%
Earthworks$50,00010%
Total Community Action Inc$48,50020%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc$48,46020%
House of Tulip$48,00025%
Old South Baton Rouge Economic Redevelopment Group$47,2101n/a
Orleans Public Education Network$47,00029%
Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc$43,00022%
American Civil Liberties Union$42,500134%
Mississippi Votes$40,91411%
Micah Six Eight Mission$40,00015%
Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless$40,00023%
Rays of Sonshine$40,00021%
Finding Our Roots$40,000227%
Asset Funders Network$40,00030%
Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response Center$40,00013%
Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation$37,91411%
Water Environment Federation$37,50010%
Puentes New Orleans Incorporated$37,00028%
Rebuilding Together Baton Rouge Inc$36,00025%
East St Tammany Habitat for Humanity Inc$36,00024%
Neighborhoods Planning & Community Development Network$35,0002n/a
The St Charles Center for Faith Action$35,000220%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$34,97821%
Healthy Community Resources and Advocacy Inc$33,59532%
Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development$33,098210%
Silence Is Violence Fka New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure$32,66628%
Urban League of Louisiana$32,50020%
Tribal Images Museum Inc$32,5001n/a
Humanities Amped$30,01725%
Agile Learning Center of New Orleans$30,000138%
The Lighthouse Black Girl Project$30,00012%
New Orleans Junior Journalism Program$30,000154%
Lutheran Social Services Disaster Response Inc$30,00021%
The Split Second Foundation Inc$30,00024%
Shakti Rising Inc$30,00018%
Living School Inc$30,00011%
Dillard University$30,00020%
National Performance Network Inc$30,00021%
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc$30,00020%
Central City Renaissance Alliance$29,000112%
Greater Treme Consortium Inc$28,09529%
For Providers by Providers Louisiana$28,00011%
504healthnet Inc$27,00016%
The Walls Project$26,00025%
Franklin & Marshall College$25,68320%
United Saints Recovery Project$25,08029%
Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana$25,0001n/a
Brothers Empowered to Teach$25,0001n/a
Eternal Seeds Inc$25,00011%
Ironton Reconstruction and Development Commitee$25,0001n/a
Peak Grantmaking Inc$25,0001n/a
Communities Healing and Nurturing Growth Through Edification$25,0001n/a
F&L Organizational Support Services$25,000128%
Louisiana Trans Advocates Foundation$25,0001n/a
Pumps to the Polls$25,0001n/a
The Descendants Project$25,00011%
Her Institute$25,000111%
Bellanola Lifestyle Management LLC$25,0002n/a
Louisiana Band of Choctaw Indians Inc$25,0001n/a
Dialogue on Race Louisiana$25,000125%
National Wildlife Federation$25,00010%
Generative Somatics$25,00014%
The Marshall Project Inc$25,00010%
A Galvanized Innovative Approach To$25,00014%
Mqvn Community Development Corp Inc$25,00020%
States Newsroom$25,00010%
In Our Backyards Inc$25,0001n/a
Central Louisiana Interfaith$25,000111%
East Baton Rouge Council on the Aging Inc$25,0001n/a
Sauls Light Foundation$25,00019%
Louisiana Public Health Institute$25,00010%
The Concerned Citizens of St John$25,0001n/a
Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention$25,000110%
Clifton-Choctaw Reservation Inc$25,0001n/a
Interaction Institute$24,98011%
Pontchartrain Conservancy$24,00021%
Project Butterfly New Orleans$24,0001n/a
The First 72$24,00011%
Free-Dem Foundations Inc$23,5002n/a
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans$23,00010%
Teen Health Mississippi$23,00012%
American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi Foundation Inc$23,00012%
Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation$22,50011%
Sankofa Community Development Corporation$21,0952n/a
100 Blackmen of St Mary Inc$21,000219%
Sprout Nola$20,59521%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge Inc$20,00010%
Islah$20,000111%
Chez Hope Inc$20,00012%
Goodwill Industries of North la Inc$20,00010%
Greater New Orleans Funders Network$20,0001n/a
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp$20,00010%
HIV-AIDS Alliance for Region Two Inc$20,00010%
St Mary Community Action Agency Inc$20,00020%
Gulf Organized Fisheries in Solidarity A$20,0001n/a
One Voice$20,00010%
Loyola University$20,00010%
The Southern Institute for Public Life$20,0001n/a
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy Inc$20,0001n/a
Strive International Inc$20,0001n/a
Ubuntu Village Nola$20,00013%
Metro Bicycle Coalition of New Orleans$17,95023%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$16,77610%
Goat in the Road Productions$15,00018%
Make Music Nola$15,00017%
NOLA Tree Project$15,00023%
Committee for a Better New Orleans$15,00017%
Southwings Inc$15,00012%
Bayou Environmental Justice Coalition$15,0001n/a
Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe$15,0001n/a
Newcorp Inc$15,0001n/a
Rural Roots Louisiana$15,0001n/a
Shreveport Green$15,00011%
Gracefully Mindful Wellness Institute$14,7501n/a
Moms of Black Boys United Inc$12,500121%
Antenna$12,00011%
Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Company Inc$11,0001n/a
Louisiana Tech University$10,5001n/a
Ascension Art LLC$10,2501n/a
The Breath Is Life Spa LLC$10,2501n/a
Cultural Crossroads Inc$10,0001n/a
By Grace$10,0001n/a
Louisiana Disaster Recovery Alliance$10,0001n/a
Reconcile New Orleans Inc$10,00010%
Keyon Fitness & Performing Arts$10,0001n/a
Black-Spade Creative LLC$10,0001n/a
The Bridge Center for Hope$10,00013%
Tekrema Center for Art and Culture$10,000112%
Goodpower Education Fund Inc$10,00010%
Southern Vision Alliance$10,00010%
Bon Temps Studios of Louisiana$10,0001n/a
Youth Initiative$10,0001n/a
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank$10,00010%
Do It for Me$10,000122%
Eschelon Productions$10,0001n/a
Guardians of the Flame$10,0001n/a
Woven Roots Community Gardens$10,0001n/a
Guardians Institute$10,0001n/a
Free Me Association$10,0001n/a
Spectrum Arts Nola$10,0001n/a
Noble Great Minds$10,0001n/a
Benjamin Foundation$10,0001n/a
A Sani Heartbeat$10,0001n/a
Canneci Tinne Apache Tribe$10,0001n/a
Nolakeys$10,0001n/a
Lsu Foundation$10,00010%
Grounds for Justice LLC$10,0001n/a
Project Possible$10,0001n/a
People for Public Art$10,0001n/a
Mondo Bizarro Productions$10,00011%
STEM Heads$10,0001n/a
Don'T Stop Dreaming$10,0001n/a
Cats Claw Corp$10,0001n/a
ArtSpot Productions Inc$10,00015%
Friends of South Louisiana Wetlands$10,00012%
Elap Ufe Productions$10,0001n/a
Original Big Seven$10,0001n/a
Friends of Codeys Nola$10,00014%
Scotland Saturdays$10,0001n/a
Lgbt Community Center of New Orleans$10,0001n/a
Alliance for Affordable Energy$10,00010%
ReEntry Mediation Institute of Louisiana$10,00014%
Jubilee Justice Inc$10,00010%
Yeah Yoga$9,81019%
Art Transit Authority$9,7251n/a
Blazing Sun Inc$9,7001n/a
Ngo Family Foundations$9,7001n/a
Captain David Chauvin LLC$9,7001n/a
Hanh Lai Inc$9,7001n/a
Black Boys Read Incorporated$9,4881n/a
Transform Network Inc$8,70012%
New Orleans Film & Video Society Inc$8,50010%
Prominent Youth Foundation$7,5001n/a
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc$7,50010%
The Life of a Single Mom$7,50011%
Nami Southeast Louisiana$7,50011%
Refined Community Empowerment$7,5001n/a
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$7,50010%
Better Family Life Inc$7,0001n/a
Swla Center for Health Services$7,00010%
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Inc$6,50011%
Louisiana Rise$6,3001n/a
Groundwork New Orleans$6,09511%
Bunnyfriend Neighborhood Associatio$6,09517%
New Orleans Chamber Foundation$6,0951n/a
Taking and Bringing Back Our Youth of Nola Inc$5,8751n/a
Philanthropy Southeast Inc$5,00010%
Elite Sports of Baton Rouge Inc$5,0001n/a
Sula Spirit LLC$5,0001n/a
United Way of Southeast Louisiana$3,71510%
I Am My Sister Community Development$3,5001n/a
Backstreet Cultural Museum Inc$2,8501n/a
Southern Univerty System$2,50010%
AARP$2,2601n/a
Capacity-Building Resources & Opportunities for Populations$1,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Foundation for Louisiana supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 183 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject South Inc: $600,549 over 6y, 17% of budgetOperation Restoration: $396,917 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $385,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSocial Entrepreneurs of New Orleans: $335,268 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNew Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice: $280,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetFamilies and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children: $255,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetKids Rethink New Orleans Schools: $249,584 over 4y, 12% of budgetNonprofit Knowledge Works Inc: $246,850 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetThe Promise of Justice Initiative: $246,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetWomen With A Vision: $236,750 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for Planning Excellence: $229,250 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetHousingNOLA: $227,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetPeoples Institute For Survival and Beyond: $226,095 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLede New Orleans Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetInterfaith Sponsoring Committee (BISCO) Inc: $207,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetLouisiana Center for Children's Rights: $203,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetThe Water Institute of the Gulf: $200,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCoalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana: $188,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetVoice of the Experienced Vote: $186,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPower Coalition for Equity and Justice: $175,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJustice and Accountability Center of Louisiana: $141,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana: $140,914 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCoastal Communities Consulting Inc: $127,189 over 3y, 18% of budgetOrleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition: $125,667 over 3y, 14% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $125,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNew Orleans Video Access Center Inc: $122,800 over 3y, 11% of budgetOur Voice Nuestra Voz: $115,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetDancing Grounds: $107,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetLouisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants: $100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPublic Allies Inc: $98,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGrow Dat Youth Farm: $95,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetRavens Outreach Center Inc: $95,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMusic and Culture Coalition of New Orleans Nonprofit Corporation: $87,914 over 6y, 27% of budgetYWCA of Greater Baton Rouge: $84,050 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Employment Opportunities Inc: $82,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $81,095 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEfforts of Grace Inc: $80,985 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetInvest in Louisiana: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Houma Nation Inc: $79,095 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMetromorphosis: $75,393 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLouisiana Abortion Fund: $75,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Enhanced Equity: $75,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFree Alas: $75,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetInnocence Project New Orleans: $74,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of Lafitte Corridor Inc: $74,000 over 3y, 14% 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 183.

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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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA150.3× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Baptist Community Ministries · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Keller Family 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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About Foundation for Louisiana

How much does Foundation for Louisiana give?
Foundation for Louisiana reported 40 itemized grants totaling $1,853,800, out of $2,080,063 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 99 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Foundation for Louisiana fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Crime & Legal (18%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Foundation for Louisiana's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project South Inc ($601k), Operation Restoration ($397k), Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($385k).
Does Foundation for Louisiana fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Louisiana?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans Community Support Foundation, United Way of Southeast Louisiana.
Where is Foundation for Louisiana based?
Foundation for Louisiana 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 277 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 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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