· Private foundation
Rocker 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MSU | $9,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| SOAR | $6,600 |
| ST ANNA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| BACK PORCH CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN EXPRESS | $3,000 |
| HOLY GHOST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB METRO LA | $2,500 |
| NORTHSHORE STEM COALITION | $2,500 |
| DELTA ZETA SORORITY | $2,000 |
| OPTIONS | $1,500 |
| NORTHSORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 25 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- OIOPTIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +0%
- CACHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +7%
- NFNorthshore Food Bank3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- EHEBF3 HADDS Foundationone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +11%
- DHDODWELL HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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,…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
Pregnancy counseling
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 grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.
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.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.
To provide comprehensive evaluations and treatment for communication disorders, i.e. speech, language, reading, fluency, voice, and hearing, and dispensing of hearing aids.
To fight cancer through research, education, and service to patience and their families.
The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is H2O Ministries Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 130 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 OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EBF3 HADDS Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northshore Food Bank ↗
- Who funds H2O MINISTRIES 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 · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Goldring Family Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Second Chance Foundation · Reach Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman 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 Rocker 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.