· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Foundation | $27,000 |
| Kidsmart | $5,000 |
| Eden House | $5,000 |
| Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti | $5,000 |
| New Orleans Women's & Children's Shelter | $5,000 |
| Conserving Carolina | $3,500 |
| Louisiana Center for Children's Rights | $3,000 |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | $3,000 |
| Vassar College | $3,000 |
| Kanuga Conference Center | $2,500 |
| Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WWNO | $2,000 |
| Bridge House | $1,500 |
| Moldova World Children's Fund | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, 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.
28 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +54%
- KSKID SMART6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +118%
- ECEDEN CENTERS6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +289%
Funded once
- SESolomon Episcopal Conference Centerone grant, 2021 · $2k
- NONew Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justiceone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -45%
- MCMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +101%
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.
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,…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Pregnancy counseling
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
The mission of crescent city schools is to support, develop and manage open enrollment charter schools that raise student achievement and prepare students for college.
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…
Cultural exchange and home hospitality.
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.
Hermann-grima + gallier historic houses, managed by the woman's exchange, preserves two 19th-century french quarter homes and, through their architecture, collections, and history, inspires discourse about our collective past and its…
To monitor criminal cases in the orleans parish court systems to ensure transparency and accountability at every level and to encourage efficiency.
The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center is a New Orleans based non-profit law office established in 1993 as the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. The LCAC represents indigent individuals who are charged with capital crimes in Louisiana…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MOLDOVA WORLD CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds ST TAMMANY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY YOUNG LEADERS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice ↗
- Who funds METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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