· Private foundation
Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Sowela Foundation | $10,000 |
| Calcasieu Parish Jr Livestock Show | $5,037 |
| Florida State University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Bridge House | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of its 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.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 80% 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
Backed again, and grew
- BNBISHOP NOLAND EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL2× · 2021–2023 · $115k · revenue +39%
- MSMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $31k · revenue +18%
- PIPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY2× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- MFMIRACLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TNThe National WWII Museumone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CHChristus Health Southwestern Louisiana Foundationone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
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 lsu real estate and facilities foundation's mission is to promote the educational and cultural welfare of lsu, and to develop, expand and improve the lsu's usefulness to the citizens of louisiana and the united states of america and to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
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…
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISHOP NOLAND EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA 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: Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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