· Private foundation
J Edgar Monroe 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 $10k47 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Loyola University | $300,000 |
| Newport Preservation Society | $100,000 |
| Holy Name of Jesus School | $100,000 |
| Fore Kids Foundation | $47,500 |
| Volunteers of America | $30,000 |
| Holy Cross High School | $25,000 |
| St Francis Xavier Church | $25,000 |
| St Michael Special School | $21,000 |
| Bayou District Foundation | $21,000 |
| Children's Hospital New Orleans | $17,000 |
| Jesuits USA Central Southern Provin | $15,000 |
| Pro Bono Project | $12,000 |
| Youth Services Bureau | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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, $372k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
109 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +50%
- FFFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS7× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +54%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- LLLeukemia Lymphomia Societyone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CPCITY PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
- STSt Therese Academyone grant, 2021 · $20k · 38% of their budget
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 strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.
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…
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
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…
Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…
To promote architecture.
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
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.
To provide comprehensive evaluations and treatment for communication disorders, i.e. speech, language, reading, fluency, voice, and hearing, and dispensing of hearing aids.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Therese Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 177 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 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STUART HALL ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER 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 · Goldring Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Angel Wings Foundation · The Azby 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 J Edgar Monroe 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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