Louisiana · Private foundation
George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat 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.
- $532k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $532k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $291k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $210k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $80k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $124k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $133k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $104k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Gates of Prayer | $620,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Orleans Jewish Community Center | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| STEM Library Lab | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation | $34,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lsu Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Storm Softball Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Woah Nellie Great Dane Rescue Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 36% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Gates of Prayer | $620,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Orleans Jewish Community Center | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| STEM Library Lab | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation | $34,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lsu Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Storm Softball Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Woah Nellie Great Dane Rescue Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 36% |
| Northshore Food Bank | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Audubon Nature Institute Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Louisiana-Mississippi Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Race Md | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($731k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Shlenker Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation?
Find your warmest path to George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat 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.
About George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation
- How much does George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation give?
- George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $532,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Philanthropy (27%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Gates of Prayer ($620k), Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans ($40k), New Orleans Jewish Community Center ($35k).
- Does George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Usdin-Weil Foundation, Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation, Goldring Family Foundation.
- Where is George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation based?
- George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat Foundation is based in LA.
Play a game based on George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat’s filings →