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James P Raymond Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$857k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MHealth$453kArts & Culture$360kFood & Nutrition$130kHuman Services$50kAnimals$37kRecreation & Sports$32kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL$200,000
ST MARYS DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL$120,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$105,000
ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION$75,150
PLEASE FOUNDATION$50,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS AN$25,000
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS$20,000
HOPE FOR AUTUMN FOUNDATION$15,000
NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION$15,000
COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS INC$15,000
ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL$13,105
START THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC$10,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE$10,000
18TH WARD$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%BIG OAK RANCH INC: $5k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH INC: $5k → 18%UNLESS U: $5k → 16%UNLESS U: $2k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF BIRMINGHAM: $8k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF BIRMINGHAM: $5k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF BIRMINGHAM: $5k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF BIRMINGHAM: $10k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 28 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
14

Total granted

$2.6M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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

  • BH
    BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +22%
  • TP
    The Please Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $235k · revenue +336%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • OI
    OZANAM INN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • SV
    SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +102%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
3
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
4
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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5
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
6
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
7
Lsu Real Estate and Facilities Foundation

The lsu real estate and facilities foundation's mission is to promote the educational and cultural welfare of lsu, and to develop, expand and improve the lsu's usefulness to the citizens of louisiana and the united states of america and to…

Education
8
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

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…

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
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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11
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
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr16%44%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
17%
3,577/20,965

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL — $1,003,000 · OtherST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOLST MARYS DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL — $134,500 · OtherST MARYS DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $95,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC+20 more — $288,485 · Other+20 moreBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION — $375,150 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE CO…+5 more — $17,500 · HealthNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $310,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS C…RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $9,537 · Arts & CultureThe Please Foundation — $235,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Pleas…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC — $30,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationHOPE FOR AUTUMN FOUNDATION — $41,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $31,000 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesUNLESS U INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,625,985Health$392,650Arts & Culture$349,537Youth Development$235,000Education$152,000Philanthropy$72,000Human Services$57,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION — $375,150 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $310,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetThe Please Foundation — $235,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR AUTUMN FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS — $25,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOZANAM INN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc — $16,405 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget18TH WARD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOOVER HELPS — $9,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNLESS U INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIEUX CARRE COMMISSION FOUNDATION — $6,037 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommercial Real Estate Women Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Goldring Family Found…Louise H Moffett Fami…Shell USA Company Fou…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Baptist Community Min…Patrick F Taylor Foun…Lauricella Land Compa…Oscar J Tolmas Charit…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Gayle and Tom Benson …United Way of Southea…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA30.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana

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 James P Raymond Jr 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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