· Private foundation
Freeman-Woollam Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANS | $20,000 |
| THE MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SILENCE IS VIOLENCE | $15,000 |
| CREATIVE ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS | $10,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| OGDEN MUSUEM OF SOUTHERN ART | $3,860 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF LOUISIANA | $3,000 |
| PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION | $1,990 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,500 |
| PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER | $1,500 |
| STUDIO IN THE WOODS | $1,000 |
| HERMANN GRIMA & GALLIER HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CITY PARK | $1,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +242%
- IPINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +66%
- LBLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE7× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +699%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +66%
- SOSave Our Cemeteries Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -35%
- TATHE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 new orleans town gardeners' shared appreciation of horticulture, floral design, garden history and design, and conservation all find ways to flourish, not only in our fellowship but also by enriching the environment of our historic…
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.
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.
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,…
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
- Who funds Save Our Cemeteries Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The First 72 ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Builders of The Highway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Keller Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Ruth U Fertel Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Freeman-Woollam Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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