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Harper Family 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPENING DOORS BATON ROUGE | $30,027 |
| STREETSIDE LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CROWVILLE | $20,000 |
| TENSAS ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS | $13,000 |
| LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP | $9,002 |
| LA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $7,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHEL | $7,500 |
| THE THENSTED CENTER | $4,000 |
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LOLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP7× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +182%
- FOFRIENDS OF CROWVILLE3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +3%
- LCLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- SMSHEPHERD'S MARKET FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2018 · $30k
- NONEW ORLEANS POLICE & JUSTICE FOUNDAone grant, 2018 · $25k
- SKST KATHERINE DREXEL PREPARATORYone grant, 2021 · $16k
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 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…
Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…
Lede New Orleans is a community media hub that trains emerging Black and Brown storytellers,produces community-centered journalism, and creates trusted spaces for civic dialogue.Founded in 2020, Lede works to advance information equity in…
Educare new orleans was organized to develop, build, and operate a high quality early education school, within the mixed income columbia parc community, on the site of the former st. bernard public housing development.
Guided by our community and grounded in racial equity intersectional equity and youth leadership New Orleans Youth Alliance fosters youth-centered policies and cultivates a system of high-quality well-resourced youth development…
Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes
Providing leadership in long term care policy and advocacy on behalf of louisianas nursing facilities and assisted living communities.
Heroes of New Orleans is a grassroot 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to inspiring and empowering youth and families. Our mission is to elevate underprivileged youth and families who face poverty or its risks, through a…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Center for Children's Rights and the most unlike its peers is Baptist Community Ministries. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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 LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CROWVILLE ↗
- Who funds STREETSIDE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RUN NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds TENSAS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THENSTED CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOORWAY TO LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE IDEA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds RAINTREE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Fund 17 ↗
- Who funds LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LAZARUS ↗
- Who funds Clover House 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 Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Gpoa Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Mitchiner-Gittinger Family Found · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Keller Family Foundation
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 Harper Family 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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