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Ogden Family 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.

$480k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$606kHealth$203kReligion$100kPhilanthropy$23kAnimals$8kYouth Development$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC$155,000
ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL$100,000
KIDS MART$100,000
LSU FOUNDATION$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA$10,000
TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONS INC$5,000
NOCCA FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIG HOLE RIVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%LSU FOUNDATION: $213k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $400k → 23%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $1k → 11%LSU FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $350k → 23%LSU FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $316k → 23%LSU FOUNDATION: $17k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $268k → 23%LSU FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $233k → 23%ACADEMY OF SACRED HEART: $1k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $200k → 23%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $2k → 19%OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART INC: $155k → 23%TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%BIO DISTRICT NEW ORLEANS: $3k → 23%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%ARTS COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS: $100k → 23%NOCCA FOUNDATION: $5k → 23%NOCCA FOUNDATION: $5k → 23%NOCCA FOUNDATION: $5k → 23%NOCCA FOUNDATION: $5k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 23%ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $2k → 23%ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL: $100k → 23%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS: $200k → 23%UNIVERSITY LOUISIANA FOUNDATION: $150k → 23%AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE INC: $8k → 23%FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONS INC: $5k → 23%FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONS INC: $5k → 23%FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONS INC: $5k → 23%FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONS INC: $5k → 23%KIDS MART: $100k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Ogden Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 81%.

Ogden Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 5 repeat orgs$705k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$2.4M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OM
    OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +6%
  • LF
    LSU FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $431k · revenue +98%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +46%
  • UL
    UNIVERSITY LOUISIANA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • AC
    Arts Council of New Orleansgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +84%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
2
University of New Orleans Foundation

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…

Education
3
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
4
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…

Health
5
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

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…

Health
6
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
7
Loyola University

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…

Education
8
Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts Foundation Inc

The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…

Education
9
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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10
The Louisiana Museum Foundation

To provide community, grants, programming, and marketing support for the chronically underfunded state-owned and operated louisiana state museum (lsm) system, including the cabildo, presbytere, new orleans jazz museum at the old u.s. mint,…

—
11
Createlouisiana

#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…

Arts & Culture
12
Univ of Louisiana At Lafayette Foundation Inc

The foundation provides philanthropic support services to assist the university of louisiana at lafayette in furthering its mission of achieving excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research, and public service.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Big Hole River Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $1,921,000 · Arts & CultureOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ARTArts Council of New Orleans: $100,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $46,000 · Arts & CultureLSU FOUNDATION: $431,453 · EducationLSU FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $6,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY LOUISIANA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…ST LOUIS CATHEDRAL: $100,000 · OtherST LOUIS …+5 more: $15,000 · Other+5 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropyAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $7,500 · AnimalsBayou Community Foundation: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$2,167,000Education$458,353Other$265,000Health$200,000Philanthropy$21,500Animals$7,500Community Improvement$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $1,921,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $431,453 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council of New Orleans: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetKID SMART: $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Hole River Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBayou Community Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Goldring Family Found…Shell USA Company Fou…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Louise H Moffett Fami…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Baptist Community Min…Robert E Zetzmann Fam…The Helis FoundationElla West Freeman Fou…Woldenberg FoundationThe Booth-Bricker Fund
Goldring Family FoundationLA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Goldring Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation · The Helis Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ogden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ogden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ogden Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ogden Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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