· Private foundation
Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k63 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | $2,600,000 |
| Catholic Community Foundation | $1,687,200 |
| Jesuit High School of New Orleans Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Notre Dame Seminary | $502,000 |
| Archbishop Rummel High School | $500,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $500,000 |
| National World War II Museum Inc | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| Bastion Community of Resilience | $250,000 |
| Clover NOLA Inc (Formerly Kingsley House Inc) | $200,000 |
| Good Shepherd Nativity School | $200,000 |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | $105,000 |
| Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris | $105,000 |
| The Papal Foundation | $100,000 |
| CAF America | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 72% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 56 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- OCOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $9.8M · revenue +101%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND4× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +72%
- TGTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +308% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- GTGAYLE & TOM BENSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- UOUniversity of the Incarnate Wordone grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
- OSOBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +56%
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.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
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,…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…
The lsu real estate and facilities foundation's mission is to promote the educational and cultural welfare of lsu, and to develop, expand and improve the lsu's usefulness to the citizens of louisiana and the united states of america and to…
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the most unlike its peers is The Stabiler Foundation. 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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 231 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUART HALL ↗
- Who funds ST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust
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 Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable 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.
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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