· Private foundation
Leslie J & Janie D Richard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRHOPE-POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE | $3,000 |
| PILOTS FOR CHRIST | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCE | $1,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SOUTH ALABAMA LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| TOUPS FAMILY MEAL INC | $1,000 |
| JOHNNY JERNIGAN MINISTRIES | $500 |
| MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOMES | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF LAS HERMANA | $300 |
| DAUGHTER OF THE KING | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMulherin Custodial Home Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +20%
- MOMarigny Opera House Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +42%
- VRVETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +669%
Funded once
- IFINGRAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- COCITY OF MOBILE SERVICEone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
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 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…
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…
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc. (d/b/a Lafitte Greenway Partnership) works to build, program, and promote the Lafitte Greenway as a great public space.
Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial. Every three years, we bring new art to an old city by inviting artists from all over the world to create projects in a wide variety of venues spread throughout New Orleans.…
Bayou Community Foundations strengthens Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish and Grand Isle, LA through philanthropic leadership to create a vibrant and diverse community where all can thrive.
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…
To provide a religious and secular education for students in kindergarten through 8th grades.
To preserve the heritage of traditional Cajun-French Jambalaya and educate the public regarding the cultural significance of Cajun-French Jambalaya.
Teach and perpetuate the musical style of early jazz music as it originated in New Orleans, LA. Create a yearly musical event in New Orleans that will expose traditional jazz to a larger audience. Attract musicians from around the world to…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Marigny Opera House Foundation ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Airlift ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Autism2Ability Inc ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds KREWE OF RED BEANS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leslie J & Janie D Richard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leslie J & Janie D Richard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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