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Keller Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k20 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $785k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Foundation for Science & Math Education Attn: Erica Durousseau | $50,000 |
| Benjamin Franklin High School Attn: Florence Bourg | $35,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Attn: Kara Griffith | $30,000 |
| Travelers Aid Society of Greater NOLA Attn: Donna Paramore | $25,000 |
| Crescent Care (NO/AIDS Task Force) Attn: Alice Rienier | $25,000 |
| Institute for Public Ethnographic/Logistics ATTN: William Buckingham | $25,000 |
| Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Attn: Emma Herr | $25,000 |
| Contemporary Arts Center Attn: Jaclyn Woollam | $20,000 |
| Broadmoor Improvement Assn. Attn: Marion Bracy | $20,000 |
| La. Endowment for the Humanities Attn: Carly Howden | $20,000 |
| Longue Vue House and Gardens Attn: Baly Lands | $20,000 |
| Bureau of Governmental Research Attn: Rebecca Mowbray | $20,000 |
| Louisiana Childrens Museum Attn: Meg Miles | $20,000 |
| Loyola University Attn: Anne Weaver | $20,000 |
| Greater New Orleans Foundation Attn: Zachary Danner | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +53% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 59 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $935k 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
- ANAudubon Nature Institute Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +78%
- PPPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +3%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +22%
- FFFdn. for Science & Math. Education Incone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MOMuseum of the Southern Jewish Experienceone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
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…
Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
-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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the most unlike its peers is The Akula Foundation. 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 21 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
125 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. 125 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA SPCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMMITMENT EDUCATION CENT ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW 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 · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Gpoa Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · The Usdin-Weil 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 Keller 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.