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Ruth U Fertel Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $349k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Longue Vue Foundation | $62,500 |
| Son Of A Saint | $60,000 |
| Holy Name Of Jesus School | $50,000 |
| St Mary's Dominican High School | $50,000 |
| Jesuit High School | $50,000 |
| Louisiana Museum Foundation | $31,250 |
| St Michael's Special School | $30,000 |
| St Martin's Episcopal School | $28,750 |
| WWOZ | $25,000 |
| Posse Foundation | $25,000 |
| UNO Foundation | $20,000 |
| Junior Achievment GNO Inc | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,433 |
| Good Shepherd School | $15,000 |
| Cafe Reconcile | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- SOSON OF A SAINT5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +1%
- FOFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC4× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +94%
- TLThe Louisiana Museum Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- LFLongue Foundationone grant, 2023 · $63k
- AOAcademy Of The Sacred Heartone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SCSt Charles Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
See schedule o for detail. the new orleans film society discovers, cultivates, and amplifies diverse voices of filmmakers who tell the stories of our time. we produce the oscar-qualifying new orleans film festival annually and invest…
Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…
Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial. Every three years, we bring new art to an old city by inviting artists from all over the world to create projects in a wide variety of venues spread throughout New Orleans.…
Be loud studios amplifies kid confidence through radio and digital media production.
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…
Court 13 Arts is a New Orleans-based 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our mission is to grow and sustain New Orleans cinema culture by advancing visual literacy, fostering creative education, and inspiring community-driven collaboration.
#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kid Smart and the most unlike its peers is Video Veracity 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 18% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 67 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 SON OF A SAINT ↗
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- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
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- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE KENYON REVIEW ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LENS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIDEO VERACITY INC ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MARKETUMBRELLAORG ↗
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 · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · 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 Ruth U Fertel 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.
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