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Freeman-Woollam Foundation at a glance

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Freeman-Woollam Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$353kCrime & Legal$122kPhilanthropy$107kEnvironment$95kHealth$88kEducation$36kAnimals$27kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$22,000
SILENCE IS VIOLENCE$20,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY$20,000
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANS$10,000
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
CRESCENT CARE$10,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF LOUISIANA$5,000
CREATIVE ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS$5,000
LENS$2,500
SOHO THINK TANK INC$2,000
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION$1,990
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,500
PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER$1,500
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$1,500
COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FIRST 72: $5k → 23%THE FIRST 72: $3k → 23%THE FIRST 72: $1k → 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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$741k · 91 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
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Total granted

$741k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SI
    SILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +242%
  • IP
    INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +66%
  • LB
    LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +699%

Funded once

  • NP
    NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • MM
    Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

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Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
2
New Orleans Town Gardeners Inc

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…

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
5
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
6
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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7
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

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.

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8
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape Soul

Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.

Environment
12
New Orleans Citizen Diplomacy Council

Cultural exchange and home hospitality.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/78
Grantees still filing
54/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $75,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODCONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANS: $69,450 · OtherCONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANSSTUDIO IN THE WOODS: $34,100 · OtherSTUDIO IN THE WOODSPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $21,600 · OtherMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $20,000 · OtherThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $16,345 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF LOUISIANA: $16,000 · Other+68 more: $179,350 · Other+68 moreNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $104,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ARTSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLE…NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCCREATIVE ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $11,720 · Arts & CultureSave Our Cemeteries Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $34,041 · Arts & Culture+13 moreTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $123,600 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NE…FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $565 · PhilanthropyLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $21,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $16,025 · EnvironmentCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $9,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,500 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $4,200 · Environment+8 more: $8,325 · EnvironmentINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: $28,750 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $4,100 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,200 · Crime & LegalTHE LENS: $5,950 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $5,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $4,000 · EducationAntenna: $3,500 · Education826 NEW ORLEANS: $2,000 · EducationNew Orleans Airlift: $1,500 · EducationISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationNEO Philanthropy Inc: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$431,845Arts & Culture$285,261Philanthropy$129,165Environment$70,050Crime & Legal$34,050Education$23,950Public Benefit$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $123,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $104,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE: $90,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: $28,750 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $21,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $16,345 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $16,025 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $11,720 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $10,980 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSave Our Cemeteries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe First 72: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew Orleans Photo Alliance Inc: $8,250 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $8,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENS: $5,950 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBuilders of The Highway Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc: $4,950 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSOHO THINK TANK INC: $4,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $4,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $4,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $4,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELLA PROJECT: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PRESENTS INC: $3,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAntenna: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $3,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3,056 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $2,210 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARKETUMBRELLAORG: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget826 NEW ORLEANS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Orleans Airlift: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY GULF: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • 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 CREATIVE ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Save Our Cemeteries Inc ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds The First 72 ↗
  • Who funds New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LENS ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds Builders of The Highway Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOHO THINK TANK 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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baptist Community Min…Keller Family Foundat…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…The Almar Foundationd…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Goldring Family Found…Foundation for Louisi…Ella West Freeman Fou…Gayle and Tom Benson …Ruth U Fertel Foundat…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA70.4× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Freeman-Woollam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freeman-Woollam Foundation. 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 0%
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report 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.
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How do I get to Freeman-Woollam Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freeman-Woollam 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 123 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home