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Keller Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$940k
Granted FY2023
71
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2023 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k20 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $785k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Attn: Emma Herr$25,000
Institute for Public Ethnographic/Logistics ATTN: William Buckingham$25,000
Crescent Care (NO/AIDS Task Force) Attn: Alice Rienier$25,000
Kedila Family Learning Center Attn: Dipo Mosadomi$20,000
Bureau of Governmental Research Attn: Rebecca Mowbray$20,000
Children's Bureau of New Orleans Attn: Charlotte Cunliffe$20,000
Contemporary Arts Center Attn: Jaclyn Woollam$20,000
Dillard University Attn: Kem Opperman-Torres$20,000
Broadmoor Improvement Assn. Attn: Marion Bracy$20,000
Loyola University Attn: Anne Weaver$20,000
For Providers by Providers Louisiana Attn: Rochelle Wilcox$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%POLICY INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $10k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 15%JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING: $8k → 15%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC: $20k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $10k → 23%ASI - A SHARED INITIATIVE INC: $5k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $5k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $5k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $5k → 23%PROPELLER: $10k → 23%NOLA4WOMEN: $5k → 23%NOLA4WOMEN: $5k → 23%ADVOCACY CENTER OF LOUISIANA: $100 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $12k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $10k → 23%RISINGFOUNDATIONS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $10k → 23%THE FIRST 72: $10k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 72 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 60 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
194

Total granted

$1.9M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+27%

Still filing today

63%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    Audubon Nature Institute Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +78%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +3%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +22%
  • CU
    Close Up Foundation Attn: Eleanor Volsang
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • MO
    Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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3
New Orleans Youth Alliance

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…

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4
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

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…

Education
5
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
6
Invest in Louisiana

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.

Public Benefit
7
Lede New Orleans Inc

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…

Education
8
Nola Business Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
9
New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
10
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
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
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities; 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.
04the grantee network

125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 326 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/125
Grantees still filing
87/125
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS ED INC: $200,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS ED INCADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN ED: $160,000 · Other+151 more: $2,876,500 · Other+151 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $55,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationFRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL: $32,000 · EducationNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER: $25,000 · EducationEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $25,000 · EducationLOUISIANA CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $17,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $15,000 · EducationSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC: $15,000 · EducationNONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE EINSTEIN GROUP INC: $12,000 · Education+6 more: $60,000 · EducationGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS: $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $14,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNew Orleans Ballet Association: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NOLA PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council of New Orleans: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Ponderosa Stomp Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE MUSIC NOLA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $22,000 · Human ServicesThe First 72: $20,000 · Human ServicesUPTURN ARTS: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesPOLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $10,000 · Human ServicesELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNOLA4WOMEN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $75,000 · AnimalsLOUISIANA SPCA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · AnimalsUNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $50,100 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COMMITMENT EDUCATION CENT: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE IDEA VILLAGE INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $60,100 · HealthST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$3,236,500Education$326,000Arts & Culture$247,000Human Services$142,000Animals$125,000Community Improvement$110,100Health$70,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LOUISIANA SPCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS ↗

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 Orlea…Baptist Community Min…Goldring Family Found…United Way of Southea…The Gpoa FoundationEugenie & Joseph Jone…The Almar Foundationd…New Orleans Community…Ella West Freeman Fou…Pro Bono Publico Foun…Entergy Charitable Fo…The Usdin-Weil Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Keller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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