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Keller Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$940k
Granted FY2023
71
Grants FY2023
71
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
60 to 78
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$21M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Keller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202371$935k83%
FY202160$801k100%
FY202060$786k98%
FY201972$856k32%
FY201873$850k63%
FY201778$765kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$713kCommunity Improvement$249kCrime & Legal$232kHuman Services$228kHealth$198kAnimals$171kHousing & Shelter$170kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 129 grantees
All grantees of Keller Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Audubon Nature Institute Inc$75,00030%
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc$60,10030%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$55,00030%
Loyola University$55,00010%
Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc$50,10020%
Louisiana Spca Foundation Inc$50,00024%
Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation$50,00030%
Bureau of Governmental Research Inc$45,00031%
Community Commitment Education Cent$40,000147%
French and Montessori Education Inc Dba Audubon Charter School$32,00020%
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts$30,0002n/a
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance$30,00021%
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities$30,00030%
Friends of City Park$30,00021%
Public Affairs Research Council of Icic A$27,50031%
Friends of a Studio in the Woods$27,00035%
New Orleans Career Center$25,00011%
Center for Resilience$25,00011%
Education Reform Now Inc$25,00010%
Southern Repertory Theatre$25,00013%
Puentes New Orleans Incorporated$22,00034%
Covenant House New Orleans$22,00020%
The Idea Village Inc$20,00021%
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights$20,00021%
Kedila Family Learning Center Inc$20,00025%
Reconcile New Orleans Inc$20,00021%
Volunteers of America Inc$20,0002n/a
The First 72$20,00022%
Family Service of Greater New Orleans$20,0002n/a
Delgado Community College Foundation$20,00011%
Court Watch Nola$20,00032%
Young Aspirations Young Artists Inc$20,00022%
Via Link Inc$20,00021%
New Orleans College Preparatory Academie$20,00010%
College Beyond Inc$20,00025%
University of Holy Cross$20,00020%
Louisiana Charter School Alliance$17,00022%
Innocence Project New Orleans$15,00011%
The Amistad Research Center$15,00012%
College Track$15,00020%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$15,00010%
Start the Adventure in Reading Inc$15,00032%
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra$15,00030%
Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc$15,0003n/a
Upturn Arts$15,00032%
Operation Restoration$15,0002n/a
Silence Is Violence Fka New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure$15,00032%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$15,00017%
Ozanam Inn$14,50011%
Kid Smart$14,0002n/a
The Einstein Group Inc$12,00010%
Gulf Coast Teaching Family Servicesinc D/B/A Gulf Coast Social Services$12,00010%
Educate Now$12,0001n/a
Community Works of Louisiana Inc$11,00011%
First Grace Community Alliance$10,00022%
New Orleans Ballet Association$10,00020%
Discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc$10,00010%
The Nola Project Inc$10,00022%
Arts Council of New Orleans$10,00011%
The 1881 Research Institute$10,00014%
Policy Institute for the Children of Louisiana Inc$10,00011%
University of New Orleans Foundation$10,0002n/a
Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans$10,00010%
Teaching Responsible Earth Education TREE$10,0002n/a
The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation$10,00028%
The Friends of the Cabildo Inc$10,00012%
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc$10,0001n/a
Make Music Nola$10,00023%
Louisiana Childrens Museum$10,00010%
Nola4women Inc$10,00027%
Contemporary Arts Center$10,00010%
Broadmoor Improvement Association Incorporated$10,0001n/a
St Thomas Community Health Center Inc$10,00010%
4point0 Schools$10,00011%
Casa - New Orleans$10,0001n/a
Core Element Greater New Orleans STEM I$10,00022%
Louisiana Association of Public Charter$10,00011%
Foundation for Louisiana$10,00010%
Crescent City Schools$10,00020%
Metro Centers for Community Advocacy Inc$10,0001n/a
New Orleans Opera Association$10,00010%
Peoples Housing Inc$10,00012%
Project Lazarus$10,00011%
Young Audiences of Louisiana Inc$10,00020%
Each One Save One Inc$10,000123%
Pelican Institute for Public Policy$10,00011%
lowernineorg$10,00015%
Jefferson Council on Aging Inc$8,00010%
Operation Spark$8,00011%
Longue Vue House & Gardens$8,00010%
Independent Curators International$7,50010%
Zeus' Rescues Inc$7,5002n/a
826 New Orleans$7,5001n/a
Rooted School$7,00010%
Educators for Quality Alternatives Inc$7,00010%
Voices for International Business and Education$7,00010%
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc$7,00013%
Cripple Creek Theatre$6,0002n/a
Lyrica Baroque$5,50025%
Educare New Orleans$5,00010%
Live Oak Wilderness Camp$5,00011%
The Inner Pup$5,00012%
New Orleans Friends of Music$5,00013%
Onpath Foundation$5,00011%
Multiplier$5,00010%
Magnolia Community Services Inc$5,00010%
The Akula Foundation$5,00017%
Brothers Empowered to Teach$5,0001n/a
New Orleans Video Access Center Inc$5,00011%
Grace at the Green Light Inc$5,0001n/a
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc$5,00010%
Goat in the Road Productions$5,0001n/a
The Beautiful Foundation Inc$5,00015%
Ogden Museum of Southern Art$5,00010%
Pelican Bomb$5,00012%
The Posse Foundation Inc$5,00010%
North Rampart Community Center Inc$5,00017%
Energy Wise Alliance$5,00011%
Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre$5,00010%
Parkway Partners Program Inc$5,00017%
Close Up Foundation$4,50010%
Pflag New Orleans Chapter Inc$3,0001n/a
The Lens$3,00011%
New Orleans Airlift$3,00010%
Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners$2,0002n/a
Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival$1,50010%
Youthforce Nola$12510%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana$10010%
Disability Rights Louisiana$10010%

Plus 196 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Keller Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $60,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnity of Greater New Orleans Inc: $50,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLouisiana Spca Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGreater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBureau of Governmental Research Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Commitment Education Cent: $40,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetFrench and Montessori Education Inc Dba Audubon Charter School: $32,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Orleans Family Justice Alliance: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of City Park: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPublic Affairs Research Council of Icic A: $27,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of a Studio in the Woods: $27,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetNew Orleans Career Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Resilience: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEducation Reform Now Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Repertory Theatre: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPuentes New Orleans Incorporated: $22,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCovenant House New Orleans: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Idea Village Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLouisiana Center for Children's Rights: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKedila Family Learning Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetReconcile New Orleans Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe First 72: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDelgado Community College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCourt Watch Nola: $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Aspirations Young Artists Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVia Link Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNew Orleans College Preparatory Academie: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Beyond Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetUniversity of Holy Cross: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Charter School Alliance: $17,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetInnocence Project New Orleans: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Amistad Research Center: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCollege Track: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStart the Adventure in Reading Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUpturn Arts: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSilence Is Violence Fka New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure: $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLouisiana Bucket Brigade: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetOzanam Inn: $14,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Einstein Group Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGulf Coast Teaching Family Servicesinc D/B/A Gulf Coast Social Services: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFirst Grace Community Alliance: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 108.

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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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA147.7× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Keller Family Foundation

How much does Keller Family Foundation give?
Keller Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $940,125 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 78 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Keller Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (16%), Arts & Culture (9%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Keller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Audubon Nature Institute Inc ($75k), Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ($60k), The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($55k).
Does Keller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Keller Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Keller Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Goldring Family Foundation.
Where is Keller Family Foundation based?
Keller Family Foundation is based in LA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 326 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $970k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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