Louisiana · Private foundation
Second Chance 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.
- $170k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $69,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $718
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Second Chance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 17 | $170k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $144k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $257k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $186k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $116k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $78k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $137k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $62k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upward Community Services | $385,888 | 9 | 32% |
| St Tammany Humane Society D/B/A Northshore Humane Society | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bridge House Corporation | $69,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Solutions of Folsom | $45,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Rich Mauti Cancer Fund | $22,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Covington Rotary Foundation | $15,500 | 5 | 9% |
| Northshore Food Bank | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Innocence Project New Orleans | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Kelly Gibson Foundation | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($522k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Second Chance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Northshore Community Foundation · Al & Diane Kramer Foundation Inc · Rocker Family Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Goldring Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Second Chance Foundation
- How much does Second Chance Foundation give?
- Second Chance Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $170,148 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Second Chance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Second Chance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upward Community Services ($386k), St Tammany Humane Society D/B/A Northshore Humane Society ($100k), Bridge House Corporation ($70k).
- Does Second Chance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Second Chance 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 Second Chance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Second Chance Foundation based?
- Second Chance Foundation is based in LA.
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