· Private foundation
Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LSU FOUNDATION | $27,800 |
| PLEASE FOUNDATION | $12,232 |
| SON OF A SAINT | $11,220 |
| JESUS PROJECT MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| EDEN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| WWOZ | $7,200 |
| MANNING FAMILY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| ST CHARLES AVENUE BAPTIST CHRUCH | $6,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS WOMENS SHELTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- LFLSU FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +103%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +21%
- TPThe Please Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +344%
Funded once
- LSLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $21k
- PIPRO-VISION INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- DMDOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
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 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…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
No board approved mission statement
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
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,…
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…
-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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pilots for Patients. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 85 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 LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Crimestoppers Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
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 · Goldring Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Smallpage Family Foundation · The Helis 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 Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation 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.