· Public charity
Foundation for Louisiana
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA is the people's foundation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $481k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPROJECT SOUTH INC6× · 2017–2023 · $601k · revenue +127%
- OROPERATION RESTORATION7× · 2018–2025 · $397k · revenue +46%
- FAFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- LNLEDE NEW ORLEANS INCone grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -29% · 61% of their budget
- PCPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
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…
To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.
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.
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.
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…
Infrastructure Solutions
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…
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,…
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.
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…
The Organization is dedicated to bringing about change in institutions, laws, politics, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow individuals to live free of violence.
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Women With A Vision ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds HousingNOLA ↗
- Who funds Peoples Institute For Survival and Beyond ↗
- Who funds LEDE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Sponsoring Committee (BISCO) Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE ↗
- Who funds POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITIES CONSULTING INC ↗
- Who funds Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition ↗
- Who funds Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ ↗
- Who funds DANCING GROUNDS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds GROW DAT YOUTH FARM ↗
- Who funds RAVENS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
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.
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
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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Foundation for Louisiana’s filings →