Louisiana · Private foundation
Harper Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $141k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,027
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Harper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $141k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $148k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $161k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $139k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $137k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $140k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $136k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $127k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Oak Wilderness Camp | $143,472 | 7 | 6% |
| Streetside Library | $70,000 | 3 | 95% |
| Friends of Crowville | $70,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Louisiana Center for Children's Rights | $60,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Youth Run Nola Inc | $57,532 | 4 | 7% |
| Tensas Academy | $45,000 | 2 | 4% |
| St Michael Special School | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Thensted Center | $24,634 | 6 | 3% |
| St Georges Episcopal School | $23,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Goat in the Road Productions | $23,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harper Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 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
How this is measured
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About Harper Family Foundation
- How much does Harper Family Foundation give?
- Harper Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $141,029 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Harper Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Community Improvement (17%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Harper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Live Oak Wilderness Camp ($143k), Streetside Library ($70k), Friends of Crowville ($70k).
- Does Harper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harper Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harper Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda.
- Where is Harper Family Foundation based?
- Harper Family Foundation is based in LA.
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