· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of GEORGE HELEN AND HAROLD WAINER FOUNDAT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER | $300,000 |
| JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA | $150,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $25,000 |
| STEM LIBRARY LAB | $20,000 |
| TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND CENTER FOR K-12 STEM EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHSHORE FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC | $5,000 |
| THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS SCIENCE FAIR INC | $5,000 |
| FOREKIDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $5,000 |
| RACEMD | $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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FFFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +54%
- JCJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +13%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC5× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +37%
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
To educate and prepare k-12 students in the greater new orleans region in science, technology, engineering and math stem through teacher professional development, inquiry based science and mathematics curricula, and material scholarly…
The jewish federation of gno's mission is to inspire community members to explore and share their jewish identities through a variety of channels.
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 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'…
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
The mission of south la wetlands discovery center is to revolutionize the way we think, teach, and learn about louisianas disappearing coast. we are currently raising funds to further our mission.
The greater new orleans foundation's mission is to advance charitable giving, strengthen nonprofits, and lead transformative civic projects in the 13 parish region of southeast louisiana. we seek to create a thriving, sustainable and just…
-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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southern Storm Softball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds STEM LIBRARY LAB ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN STORM SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds WOAH NELLIE GREAT DANE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RACE MD ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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 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
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 George Helen and Harold Wainer Foundat 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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