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Foundation for Louisiana

FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA is the people's foundation.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,853,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,080,063 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $226,263 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $427k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
$32,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE$175,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$155,590
PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE$100,000
LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$100,000
LOUISIANA ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS$90,000
LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT$90,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$85,000
FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA'S INCARCERATED CHILDREN$85,000
OPERATION RESTORATION$84,000
VOICES OF THE EXPERIENCED$75,000
LOUISIANA BUDGET PROJECT$65,000
EXTENSIVE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC$57,500
DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE$50,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC$50,000
EARTHWORKS$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.

area typical 12%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $41k → 17%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $23k → 23%100 BLACK MEN OF ST MARY INC: $11k → 25%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $20k → 17%COASTAL COMMUNITIES CONSULTING: $60k → 15%MICAH SIX EIGHT MISSION: $40k → 17%LOUISIANA ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANTS IN DETENTION: $25k → 22%UBINTU VILLAGE NOLA: $20k → 23%100 BLACK MEN OF ST MARY INC: $11k → 25%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $20k → 17%COASTAL COMMUNITIES CONSULTING: $55k → 15%TRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM INC: $33k → 17%CHEZ HOPE: $20k → 25%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $10k → 17%COASTAL COMMUNITIES CONSULTING INC: $12k → 15%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $8k → 17%MOMS OF BLACK BOYS UNITED INC: $13k → 17%LIFT NEW ORLEANS: $20k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $94k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $58k → 23%YWCA GREATER BATON ROUGE: $25k → 19%YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $25k → 19%YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $20k → 19%YWCA GREATER BATON ROUGE: $14k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $8k → 19%OPERATION RESTORATION: $8k → 23%PROPELLER SOCIAL INNOVATION INCUBATOR: $200k → 23%PROPELLER SOCIAL INNOVATION INCUBATOR: $77k → 23%PROPELLER SOCIAL INNOVATION: $50k → 23%TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $41k → 23%PROPELLER SOCIAL INNOVATION INCUBATOR: $8k → 23%TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $84k → 23%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $25k → 23%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $25k → 23%HOUSINGNOLA: $125k → 23%HOUSINGNOLA: $38k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LA: $30k → 23%HOUSINGNOLA: $25k → 23%HOUSINGNOLA: $25k → 23%FIRST 72: $24k → 23%HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY INC: $20k → 23%HOUSINGNOLA: $15k → 23%HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $8k → 23%HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $6k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER NEW ORLEA: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Foundation for Louisiana’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Foundation for Louisianalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 96 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
160

Total granted

$9.5M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

86%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $481k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PS
    PROJECT SOUTH INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $601k · revenue +127%
  • OR
    OPERATION RESTORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $397k · revenue +46%
  • FA
    FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • LN
    LEDE NEW ORLEANS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -29% · 61% of their budget
  • PC
    POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE
    one grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
  • GB
    GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +86%
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
Together Louisiana

Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…

Public Benefit
2
For a Better Bayou

To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.

Environment
3
Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans

The Water Collaborative seeks to build a diverse network for all impacted by flood risk by focusing on equitable practices to sustainably live and thrive with water.

Environment
4
Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.

Arts & Culture
5
Nola Business Alliance

Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…

Community Improvement
6
Capital Region Industry for Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions

Infrastructure Solutions

Community Improvement
7
Leaders for a Better Louisiana Inc

To develop and connect leaders and citizens to drive transformative change for a better louisiana. through its work, the organization seeks to transform louisiana into a dynamic, future-ready economy that offers every citizen and business…

Community Improvement
8
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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
The Urban Conservancy

Founded in 2001, The Urban Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and advocacy that promotes the wise stewardship of the urban built environment and local economies.

Community Improvement
10
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance

The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…

Human Services
11
Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc

The Organization is dedicated to bringing about change in institutions, laws, politics, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow individuals to live free of violence.

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12
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Concerned Citizens of St John. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

209 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. 209 of the 277 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
194/209
Grantees still filing
118/209
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $4,195,003 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Founda…+7 more: $242,000 · Philanthropy+7 morePROJECT SOUTH INC: $600,549 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCInterfaith Sponsoring Committee (BISCO) Inc: $207,000 · OtherWomen With A Vision: $236,750 · OtherKIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $249,584 · OtherCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE: $229,250 · Other+107 more: $4,445,099 · Other+107 moreOPERATION RESTORATION: $396,917 · Human ServicesOPERATION RE…SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $335,268 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTRE…HousingNOLA: $227,500 · Human ServicesHousingNOLACOASTAL COMMUNITIES CONSULTING INC: $127,189 · Human ServicesCOASTAL COMM…OUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ: $115,000 · Human ServicesOUR VOICE NU…PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $98,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $84,050 · Human Services+16 more: $476,055 · Human Services+16 moreVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $385,000 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTIT…FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN: $255,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILIES AN…THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $246,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PROMISE…LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $203,500 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA C…VOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE: $186,000 · Crime & LegalVOICE OF TH…JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER OF LOUISIANA: $141,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE AND…LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Crime & LegalINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: $74,500 · Crime & LegalImmigration Services and Legal Advocacy: $72,500 · Crime & LegalCOURT WATCH NOLA: $65,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $45,000 · Crime & LegalNew Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice: $280,000 · Civil RightsPeoples Institute For Survival and Beyond: $226,095 · Civil RightsPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $175,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA: $140,914 · Civil RightsStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $125,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $75,000 · Civil RightsLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $43,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $40,914 · Civil Rights+3 more: $85,914 · Civil RightsTHE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF: $200,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $188,500 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $81,095 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA ABORTION FUND: $75,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL: $67,189 · EnvironmentHEALTHY GULF: $67,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $57,189 · EnvironmentARNOLD CR: $50,000 · EnvironmentWater Environment Federation: $37,500 · Environment+7 more: $130,776 · EnvironmentNONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC: $246,850 · EducationLEDE NEW ORLEANS INC: $225,000 · EducationFREE ALAS: $75,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $70,000 · EducationUniversity of New Orleans Foundation: $65,659 · EducationORLEANS PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK: $47,000 · Education+11 more: $270,683 · Education
Philanthropy$4,437,003Other$5,968,232Human Services$1,860,479Crime & Legal$1,763,500Civil Rights$1,191,837Environment$1,029,249Education$1,000,192

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $4,195,003 over 2y, 2.1% of 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 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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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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