· Private foundation
Leslie J & Janie D Richard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of LESLIE J & JANIE D RICHARD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRHOPE-POINT CLEAR ROTARY YOUTH PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
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
- MCMulherin Custodial Home Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +20%
- MPMcKemie Place Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +30%
- MOMarigny Opera House Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IFINGRAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- COCITY OF MOBILE SERVICEone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roots of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnny Jernigan Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 44 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
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 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 Autism2Ability Inc ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds KREWE OF RED BEANS ↗
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 · 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
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 Leslie J & Janie D Richard 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.
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