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Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$338k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$3.2MHealth$2.7MArts & Culture$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.4MEducation$1.0MRecreation & Sports$895kReligion$886kYouth Development$703kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $873k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $338k
$21,850
Median grant
4
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $35k → 5%JAMES SAMARITAN: $31k → 11%OPTIONS INC: $79k → 20%JAMES SAMARITAN: $21k → 11%OPTIONS INC: $77k → 20%JAMES SAMARITAN: $21k → 11%OPTIONS INC: $75k → 20%JAMES SAMARITAN: $20k → 11%OPTIONS INC: $65k → 20%OPTIONS INC: $25k → 20%SCOTT'S WISH INC: $2k → 11%SCOTT'S WISH INC: $2k → 11%SCOTT'S WISH INC: $2k → 11%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $4k → 23%SCOTT'S WISH INC: $2k → 11%SCOTT'S WISH INC: $2k → 11%RAINTREE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 23%RAINTREE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $40k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $40k → 23%RAINTREE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $35k → 23%RAINTREE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $29k → 23%RAINTREE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $25k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $50k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $40k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $30k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $22k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $22k → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $8k → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $8k → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $5k → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trustlessmore 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 78 repeat orgs$892k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
18

Total granted

$12M
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

59%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BH
    BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +25%
  • MC
    MAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $430k · revenue +20%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CITY PARK
    2× · 2020–2022 · $350k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • LC
    LOUISIANA COMMUNITY MIKVAH
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • PP
    PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +38%
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
Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

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2
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

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.

Philanthropy
4
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance

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…

Human Services
5
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
6
Orleans County Child Advocacy Center Inc
Health
7
Heroes of New Orleans

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…

Youth Development
8
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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9
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools

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.

Youth Development
10
New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center

To provide comprehensive evaluations and treatment for communication disorders, i.e. speech, language, reading, fluency, voice, and hearing, and dispensing of hearing aids.

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11
New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
12
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Service Bureau of St Tammany; 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.
05the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 115 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
45/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA SOUTHEAST LA: $1,462,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA SOUTHEAST LANATIONAL WW II MUSEUM: $550,000 · OtherNATIONAL WW II MUSEUMMAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $430,000 · OtherMAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INCBETH ISRAEL: $405,598 · OtherUNO FOUNDATION: $351,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $350,000 · OtherST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL: $349,000 · OtherLOUISIANA COMMUNITY MIKVAH: $300,000 · Other+70 more: $3,542,500 · Other+70 moreJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $482,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILDREN'…OPTIONS INC: $321,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS INCTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $320,000 · Human ServicesTHE KELLY GIBSON…RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesRAINTREE SERVICE…UPTURN ARTS: $169,000 · Human ServicesUPTURN ARTSCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $164,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE N…EDEN CENTERS: $130,800 · Human ServicesEDEN CENTERSJAMES SAMARITAN: $92,800 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $77,500 · Human Services+5 more: $74,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $1,177,500 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE…NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC: $190,000 · HealthNEW HEIGHTS …ANGELS' PLACE INC: $148,000 · HealthANGELS' PLAC…+4 more: $20,500 · HealthGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER N…New Orleans Ballet Association: $210,000 · Arts & CultureNew Orlea…THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $210,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUIS…MAKE MUSIC NOLA: $110,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE MUSI…KID SMART: $90,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART+1 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $450,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $305,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $45,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $9,700 · PhilanthropyThe Please Foundation: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of New Orleans: $55,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,740,598Human Services$2,026,300Health$1,536,000Arts & Culture$1,162,500Recreation & Sports$490,000Philanthropy$359,700Youth Development$323,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $1,177,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $482,200 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $450,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $430,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $350,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOPTIONS INC: $321,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $305,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNew Orleans Ballet Association: $210,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $210,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNextOp Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetRAINTREE SERVICES INC: $195,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC: $190,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $190,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $180,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $175,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetUPTURN ARTS: $169,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $164,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetANGELS' PLACE INC: $148,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe Please Foundation: $145,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetEDEN CENTERS: $130,800 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMAKE MUSIC NOLA: $110,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $108,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCrimestoppers Inc: $104,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center - Hope House: $100,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetJAMES SAMARITAN: $92,800 over 4y, 12% of budgetKID SMART: $90,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $85,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $77,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCROSSROADS: $76,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGirls on the Run of New Orleans: $55,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $45,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLOVER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetNAMI SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBayou-Gulf States Chapter (Paralyzed Veterans of America): $25,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRESTORATION PREGNANCY RESOURCE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCAFE HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Arc of Greater New Orleans: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI NEW ORLEANS INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • 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 NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baptist Community Min…Goldring Family Found…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Shell USA Company Fou…United Way of Southea…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Gayle and Tom Benson …The Almar Foundationd…Luther and Zita Templ…The Gpoa FoundationLouis & Lillian Glaze…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA73.9× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 115 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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