How much does Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda give?

Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda reported 75 grants totaling $1,185,313 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 77 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Philanthropy (18%), Animals (13%).

Who are Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Pro Bono Publico Foundation ($500k), National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($475k), Ducks Unlimited Inc ($236k).

Does Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.

Where is Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda based?

Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda is based in FL.

Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda

Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda at a glance

· Private foundation

Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$270k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$985kAnimals$690kCrime & Legal$690kEnvironment$475kArts & Culture$367kHealth$350kHousing & Shelter$223kOther$0

02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k39 grants · $151k
$10k–50k32 grants · $510k
$50k–250k3 grants · $255k
$250k+1 grant · $270k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION	$270,000
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION	$100,000
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION	$100,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED	$55,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY	$31,031
THE RECTORY SCHOOL	$30,000
METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION	$29,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION	$25,000
ST GEORGE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL	$25,000
LAND TRUST FOR LITTLE TENNESSEE	$25,000
NEW ORLEANS WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S SHELTER	$22,500
STEM LIBRARY LAB	$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE	$19,642
HOGS FOR THE CAUSE	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.3M · 85 repeat orgs$424k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

85 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.3M

$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+26%

Still filing today

61%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

PB
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +48%
NF
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +48%
DU
Ducks Unlimited Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $236k · revenue +105%

Funded once

NP
NATIONAL PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC
one grant, 2021 · $110k
NO
NEW ORLEANS WOMEN'S SHELTER
one grant, 2020 · $25k
YE
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +8%

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.

Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy

New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture

New Orleans Public Library Foundation

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.

Education

University of New Orleans Foundation

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…

Education

Laura Center for Creole Heritage

Arts & Culture

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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Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

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University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-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…

Health

Lsu Alumni Association

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…

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Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit

Louisiana Charter School Alliance

The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities; 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

87 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. 87 of the 142 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/87

Grantees still filing

65/87

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,723,437Philanthropy$800,000Animals$660,000Public Safety & Disaster$516,010Environment$292,410Arts & Culture$277,500Human Services$222,500

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

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.

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 Orleans FoundationLA89.8× affinity48 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 · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable 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 Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

34report 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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