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Shlenker 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW ORLEANS | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $3,080 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| CITY PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| WYES | $1,500 |
| LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS | $1,000 |
| TENNESSE WILLIAMS THEATER COMPANY OF NOLA | $1,000 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $1,000 |
| DEUTSCHES HAUS | $1,000 |
| TOUPS FAMILY MEAL | $1,000 |
| NEW VOICES NEW ORLEANS | $1,000 |
| LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS | $1,000 |
| RACE MDHOTTER THAN HELL MARATHON | $750 |
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, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CPCITY PARK CONSERVANCY4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +14%
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +52%
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS CITY PARKone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF CITY PARKone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue 0%
- NONEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -3%
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.
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,…
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
To further the interest in the history of pharmacology and promote its further development for the benefit of the general public.
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,…
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 mission of new orleans ballet theatre (nobt) is to be the premier resident ballet company of the gulf south internationally renowned for world-class performances, innovative choreography, and outstanding professional training,…
Cultural exchange and home hospitality.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Lazarus and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 52 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 CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DEUTSCHES HAUS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LAZARUS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE NOLA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND IN NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VOICES NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds Threadhead Cultural Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TOUPS' FAMILY MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ROWING CLUB LTD ↗
- Who funds RACE MD ↗
- Who funds KARNIVAL KREWE DE LOUISIANE 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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · The Azby Fund · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Michael Bright White Family 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 Shlenker 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.