Louisiana · Private foundation
Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust
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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,850
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $337,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 74 | $2.9M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $2.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $2.6M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $3.0M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge House Corporation | $1,177,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation | $525,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $482,200 | 5 | 7% |
| Community Sailing New Orleans | $450,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Magnolia Community Services Inc | $430,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of City Park | $350,000 | 2 | 13% |
| St Michael Special School | $349,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Options Inc | $321,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Kelly Gibson Foundation | $320,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Louisiana Community Mikvah | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Goldring Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · The Gpoa Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust
- How much does Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust give?
- Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust reported 74 grants totaling $2,855,472 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Bridge House Corporation ($1.2M), Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation ($525k), Jewish Children's Regional Service ($482k).
- Does Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust 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 Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Goldring Family Foundation.
- Where is Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust based?
- Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust is based in LA.
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