· Private foundation
Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- Under $10k34 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE SINAI | $12,483 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $12,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $11,000 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $10,000 |
| OCHSNER | $10,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE THOMAS & MCMAHAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEART N HANDS | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE OF NEW ORLEANS | $4,500 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK | $3,000 |
| AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- ANAudubon Nature Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +78%
- YEYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +48%
- YAYoung Audiences Charter Association7× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +442%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- NONEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +9%
- LDLSU DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRYone grant, 2018 · $6k
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 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 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 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,…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of Black Education For New Orleans BE NOLA is to support Black educators and schools to ensure an education that creates better outcomes and opportunities for Black children in New Orleans as a critical factor in building a…
Youthforce nola fuels a movement that equips young people to graduate high school on a path to career success.
Kid smart's mission is to engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts. we do this through integrating the arts into public schools, making them more joyful and effective places to learn.
The renew charter management organization will transform underperforming schools into academically rigorous schools that prepare students for the next level of achievement, including high school, college, and career.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Poydras Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 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. 53 of the 86 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 NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Young Audiences Charter Association ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA JEFFERSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds The Front ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPTURN ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAKE MUSIC NOLA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN ↗
- Who funds POYDRAS HOME ↗
- Who funds CAFE HOPE INC ↗
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: Baptist Community Ministries · Goldring Family Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Keller 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 Luther and Zita Templeman 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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