Louisiana · 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.
- $189k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $189k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $173k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $184k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $208k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $171k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $174k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $172k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $169k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lsu Foundation | $138,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $122,050 | 9 | 0% |
| The Please Foundation | $93,318 | 8 | 4% |
| Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc | $92,730 | 9 | 1% |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | $86,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $58,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Isidore Newman School | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Louisiana Museum Foundation | $40,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Crimestoppers Inc | $35,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Friends of Wwoz Inc | $34,800 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($597k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · 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
How this is measured
Compare Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation with peer funders
About Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation
- How much does Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation give?
- Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $188,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lsu Foundation ($138k), Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana ($122k), The Please Foundation ($93k).
- Does Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation 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 Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Goldring Family Foundation, Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda.
- Where is Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation based?
- Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation is based in LA.
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