· Private foundation
Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $925k
- $250k+3 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $250,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $250,000 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $175,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $100,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $100,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| DELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 87% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +7% since the first grant, against -49% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NONew Orleans Ballet Association8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +84%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
- BHBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LNLOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -49%
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.
Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
The mission of new orleans ballet theatre (nobt) is to be the premier resident ballet company of the gulf south internationally renowned for world-class performances, innovative choreography, and outstanding professional training,…
To be the trusted advocate and resource for our members and the greater new orleans real estate community. we promote the business interests of our members, enhance their professional image and practice, and champion private property…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
To promote architecture.
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Delta Olympic Sailing Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Ballet Association ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER MILNE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION ↗
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 · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Alex Berger Foundation · Wendell & Anne Gauthier Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family 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 Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.