Louisiana · Private foundation
Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $81k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $75k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $75k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $81k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kid Smart | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Eden Centers | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Grant Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Conserving Carolina | $20,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Louisiana Center for Children's Rights | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jericho Road Episcopal Housinginitiative LLC | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Bridge House Corporation | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kid Smart | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Eden Centers | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Grant Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Conserving Carolina | $20,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Louisiana Center for Children's Rights | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jericho Road Episcopal Housinginitiative LLC | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Bridge House Corporation | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Moldova World Childrens Fund Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House New Orleans | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Clover Nola Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Tammany Hospital Foundation | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Henderson County Young Leaders Program Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Converse University | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metro Centers for Community Advocacy Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation · Junior League of New Orleans Inc · The Aaron or Peggy Selber Foundation In · Ella West Freeman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation
- How much does Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation give?
- Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $81,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Housing & Shelter (9%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter Inc ($35k), Kid Smart ($30k), Eden Centers ($30k).
- Does Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baptist Community Ministries, United Way of Southeast Louisiana, The Greater New Orleans Foundation.
- Where is Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation based?
- Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation is based in LA.
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