· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $873k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $338k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION | $337,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA SOUTHEAST LA | $175,000 |
| COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS INC | $175,000 |
| WYES | $125,000 |
| BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $105,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL | $104,122 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE | $102,700 |
| UNO FOUNDATION | $86,000 |
| ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GNO | $75,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GNO INC | $75,000 |
| KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GNO | $60,000 |
| RAINTREE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $55,000 |
| MAKE MUSIC NOLA | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 18 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k 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
- BHBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +22%
- MCMAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $430k · revenue +20%
- FOFRIENDS OF CITY PARK2× · 2020–2022 · $350k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- LCLOUISIANA COMMUNITY MIKVAHone grant, 2021 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $60k
- PPPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +38%
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.
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
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…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Heroes of New Orleans is a grassroot 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to inspiring and empowering youth and families. Our mission is to elevate underprivileged youth and families who face poverty or its risks, through a…
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Rethink's mission is to support black youth in becoming thoughtful leaders, capable of critically rethinking their experiences, and taking action to create and sustain transformative systemic change.
To provide comprehensive evaluations and treatment for communication disorders, i.e. speech, language, reading, fluency, voice, and hearing, and dispensing of hearing aids.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Service Bureau of St Tammany and the most unlike its peers is Acadiana Veteran Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 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. 67 of the 115 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 BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Ballet Association ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NextOp Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINTREE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds UPTURN ARTS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE MUSIC NOLA ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Crimestoppers Inc ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House ↗
- Who funds JAMES SAMARITAN ↗
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: 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
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 Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust 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.