· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (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 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.
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
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 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%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conserving Carolina. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOLDOVA WORLD CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Mary E Peters & Robert W Polchow 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.