Louisiana · Private foundation
Robert L Pierce 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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Robert L Pierce Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 12 | $88k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $91k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $47k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $84k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $73k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $70k | 55% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans | $133,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Perpetual Abundance of Love | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House | $80,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Kelly Gibson Foundation | $74,250 | 9 | 2% |
| The Louisiana Open Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Galatoire Foundation Inc | $32,300 | 4 | 4% |
| Echo Community | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Tammany Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert L Pierce 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 · Northshore Community Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Shell USA Company Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Al & Diane Kramer Foundation Inc · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Robert L Pierce Foundation
- How much does Robert L Pierce Foundation give?
- Robert L Pierce Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $87,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert L Pierce Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (27%), Human Services (23%), Health (13%).
- Who are Robert L Pierce Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans ($133k), Perpetual Abundance of Love ($80k), Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House ($80k).
- Does Robert L Pierce Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert L Pierce 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 L Pierce Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Northshore Community Foundation, Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
- Where is Robert L Pierce Foundation based?
- Robert L Pierce Foundation is based in LA.
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